Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Harry Mark Petrakis
Charting Oct 30, 1966 → Jul 13, 1969 · 14 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.08%
- week of Jan 15, 1967
- Career Power
- 66
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 54
- February 1966 – January 1967
- Peak Five Years
- 66
- July 1964 – July 1969
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 14
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Jun 29, 1969
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 1969
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 books · 66 share-weeks of Career Power
Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Dream of Kings | #8 | 12 | 54.5 | ||
| The Waves of Night | #7 | 2 | 11.8 |
At their peak
1966 in books →Harry Mark Petrakis's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1966 to January 1967. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Jacqueline Susann604
- 2James Michener421
- 3Harold Robbins398
- 4James Clavell301
- 5Helen MacInnes297
- 6Robert Crichton254
- 7Louis Auchincloss217
- 8Irving Stone207
- 9Adela Rogers St. Johns196
- 10Allen Drury191
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.