Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Michener
Charting Aug 11, 1963 → Oct 1, 1989 · 170 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
69 crowns
19631989Longest reign 41 weeks (Jul 1965 – May 1966) · First crown Jul 1965
- Peak Power
- 14.44%
- week of May 1, 1966
- Career Power
- 1,915
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 69
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 720
- June 1965 – June 1966
- Peak Five Years
- 1,170
- October 1961 – October 1966
- Top-five weeks
- 137
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 170
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Jul 11, 1965
- Comebacks
- 2
- Jun 1965 · Oct 1974, after 8 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 books · 1,915 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 Source | #1 | 71 | 886.1 | ||
| Centennial | #1 | 60 | 701.3 | ||
| Caravans | #2 | 29 | 284.0 | ||
| Journey | #6 | 10 | 43.9 |
At their peak
1965 in books →James Michener's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1965 to June 1966. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Michener720
- 2Bel Kaufman491
- 3Irving Stone345
- 4Arthur Hailey273
- 5Robin Moore230
- 6Helen MacInnes226
- 7Mary Stewart190
- 8Jacqueline Susann187
- 9Louis Auchincloss175
- 10Harold Robbins132
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.