Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ian Fleming
Charting Sep 15, 1963 → Dec 12, 1965 · 62 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.97%
- week of Jan 31, 1965
- Career Power
- 377
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 165
- November 1964 – November 1965
- Peak Five Years
- 377
- November 1960 – December 1965
- Top-five weeks
- 9
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 62
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Oct 3, 1965
- 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
3 books · 377 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You Only Live Twice | #5 | 23 | 143.2 | ||
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service | #7 | 25 | 141.7 | ||
| The Man with the Golden Gun | #4 | 14 | 92.1 |
At their peak
1964 in books →Ian Fleming's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1964 to November 1965. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Saul Bellow497
- 2Bel Kaufman411
- 3Arthur Hailey313
- 4James Michener291
- 5Irving Wallace284
- 6Louis Auchincloss248
- 7Mary Stewart225
- 8John le Carré203
- 9Morris West190
- 10Herman Wouk179
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.