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Ian Fleming portraitIan Fleming

Charting Sep 15, 1963Dec 12, 1965 · 62 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
You Only Live Twice#523143.2
On Her Majesty's Secret Service#725141.7
The Man with the Golden Gun#41492.1

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:

  1. 1Saul Bellow497
  2. 2Bel Kaufman411
  3. 3Arthur Hailey313
  4. 4James Michener291
  5. 5Irving Wallace284
  6. 6Louis Auchincloss248
  7. 7Mary Stewart225
  8. 8John le Carré203
  9. 9Morris West190
  10. 10Herman Wouk179

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.