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Henry Miller portraitHenry Miller

Charting Jul 2, 1961Dec 17, 1961 · 25 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.75%
week of Nov 19, 1961
Career Power
146
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
146
December 1960 – December 1961
Peak Five Years
146
December 1956 – December 1961
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Jul 23, 1961
Comebacks
0
none detected

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

1 book · 146 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Tropic of Cancer#525146.0

At their peak

1960 in books

Henry Miller's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1960 to December 1961. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Harper Lee571
  2. 2Irving Stone513
  3. 3Andre Schwarz-Bart355
  4. 4James A. Michener350
  5. 5Allen Drury256
  6. 6Leon Uris237
  7. 7Harold Robbins204
  8. 8Graham Greene191
  9. 9Edwin O'Connor186
  10. 10J.D. Salinger162

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.