Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

James Jones

Charting Mar 11, 1951 → Jun 11, 1978 · 116 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year: 1951

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
20 crowns
19511978
Longest reign 20 weeks (Mar–Aug 1951) · First crown Mar 1951

Peak Power: 13.23%; week of Aug 5, 1951
Career Power: 879; share-weeks
Crowns: 20; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 559; March 1951 – March 1952
Peak Five Years: 599; November 1948 – November 1953
Top-five weeks: 46; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 116; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Mar 25, 1951
Comebacks: 2; Mar 1958, after 6 quiet years · Dec 1962, after 5 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

5 books · 879 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
From Here to Eternity	#1March 1951	66	March 1951 – November 1953	599.4	599.4
The Thin Red Line	#6October 1962	18	September 1962 – February 1963	99.1	99.1
Some Came Running	#4February 1958	13	January 1958 – April 1958	79.2	79.2
Whistle	#5April 1978	11	April 1978 – June 1978	63.0	63.0
Go to the Widow-Maker	#8June 1967	8	May 1967 – July 1967	38.5	38.5

At their peak

1951 in books →

James Jones's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1951 to March 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.