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Irving Stone

Charting Oct 8, 1934 → Dec 1, 1985 · 325 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
51 crowns
19341985
Longest reign 27 weeks (Apr–Oct 1961) · First crown Oct 1954

Peak Power: 13.97%; week of Oct 22, 1961
Career Power: 2,931; share-weeks
Crowns: 51; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 704; April 1961 – April 1962
Peak Five Years: 1,173; April 1961 – April 1966
Top-five weeks: 198; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 325; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Oct 17, 1954
Comebacks: 7; Nov 1944, after 10 quiet years · Nov 1951, after 6 quiet years · Sep 1954 · Apr 1961, after 6 quiet years · Dec 1965 · Apr 1971, after 5 quiet years · Dec 1975

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

12 books · 2,931 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 Agony and the Ecstasy	#1April 1961	83	April 1961 – October 1962	892.5	892.5
Love Is Eternal	#1October 1954	39	September 1954 – June 1955	423.9	423.9
Those Who Love	#2December 1965	39	October 1965 – July 1966	363.8	363.8
The Passions of the Mind	#1April 1971	31	March 1971 – October 1971	351.4	351.4
The President's Lady	#3January 1952	33	October 1951 – May 1952	231.7	231.7
The Greek Treasure	#2December 1975	24	October 1975 – April 1976	208.4	208.4
Immortal Wife	#3January 1945	22	October 1944 – October 1945	171.6	171.6
The Origin	#4September 1980	24	August 1980 – February 1981	118.1	118.1
Lust for Life	#2October 1934	11	October 1934 – December 1934	104.9	101.2
Adversary in the House	#7October 1947	7	October 1947 – November 1947	27.9	27.9
The Passionate Journey	#9November 1949	8	October 1949 – December 1949	25.7	25.7
Depths of Glory	#11November 1985	4	October 1985 – December 1985	10.9	10.9

At their peak

1961 in books →

Irving Stone's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1961 to April 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.