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J.P. Donleavy portraitJ.P. Donleavy

Charting Jul 20, 1958Jan 19, 1969 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.52%
week of Jan 19, 1969
Career Power
7
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
5
January 1968 – January 1969
Peak Five Years
5
January 1964 – January 1969
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Jan 19, 1969
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

2 books · 7 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
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B.#914.8
The Ginger Man#1611.8

At their peak

1968 in books

J.P. Donleavy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1968 to January 1969. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Arthur Hailey569
  2. 2John Updike394
  3. 3Leon Uris318
  4. 4Taylor Caldwell303
  5. 5Fletcher Knebel288
  6. 6Gore Vidal266
  7. 7William Styron264
  8. 8Helen MacInnes230
  9. 9Catherine Marshall192
  10. 10Allen Drury186

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.