Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Howard Fast
Charting May 17, 1943 → Mar 22, 1987 · 132 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 9.52%
- week of Jan 6, 1980
- Career Power
- 779
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 6
- weeks as the top author
- Peak Year
- 233
- December 1978 – December 1979
- Peak Five Years
- 588
- September 1977 – December 1982
- Top-five weeks
- 37
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 132
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Oct 28, 1979
- Comebacks
- 3
- September 1946, November 1977, November 1981
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Nov 8, 1943 | Sep 1, 1946 | 147 | 144 | 5.91% | 2.63% |
| After absence | Nov 17, 1946 | Nov 13, 1977 | 1610 | 1606 | 5.91% | 2.33% |
| After decline | May 25, 1980 | Nov 15, 1981 | 77 | 70 | 9.52% | 3.33% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
10 books · 779 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Establishment | #1 | 26 | 215.3 | ||
| Second Generation | #3 | 20 | 146.2 | ||
| The Immigrants | #5 | 22 | 103.2 | ||
| Citizen Tom Paine | #2 | 10 | 92.9 | ||
| The Legacy | #4 | 17 | 90.9 | ||
| The American | #4 | 8 | 45.3 | ||
| Max | #8 | 12 | 36.7 | ||
| The Immigrant's Daughter | #11 | 8 | 24.2 | ||
| The Outsider | #11 | 5 | 15.1 | ||
| The Dinner Party | #13 | 4 | 9.6 |