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Herbert Tarr

Charting Jul 7, 1968Nov 3, 1968 · 13 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.62%
week of Sep 15, 1968
Career Power
68
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
68
November 1967 – November 1968
Peak Five Years
68
October 1963 – November 1968
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Sep 15, 1968
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 · 68 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
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At their peak

1967 in books

Herbert Tarr's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1967 to November 1968. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Arthur Hailey455
  2. 2Leon Uris454
  3. 3William Styron423
  4. 4John Updike348
  5. 5Catherine Marshall297
  6. 6Fletcher Knebel288
  7. 7Gore Vidal266
  8. 8Taylor Caldwell234
  9. 9Mary Stewart176
  10. 10Henry Sutton135

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.