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Charting May 21, 1967 → Apr 7, 1991 · 59 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.40%
week of Oct 29, 1967
Career Power
355
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
260
April 1967 – April 1968
Peak Five Years
260
March 1963 – April 1968
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
59
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Oct 8, 1967
Comebacks
1
Apr 1976, after 8 quiet years

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 · 355 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
Rosemary's Baby#343260.5
The Boys from Brazil#41488.1
Sliver#1126.8

At their peak

1967 in books →

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

  1. 1Elia Kazan442
  2. 2Chaim Potok367
  3. 3William Styron342
  4. 4Thornton Wilder320
  5. 5Leon Uris311
  6. 6Ira Levin260
  7. 7Gore Vidal245
  8. 8Mary Stewart239
  9. 9Catherine Marshall219
  10. 10Robert Crichton147

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.