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Jan de Hartog portraitJan de Hartog

Charting Sep 14, 1952May 28, 1967 · 29 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.22%
week of May 7, 1967
Career Power
165
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
125
June 1966 – May 1967
Peak Five Years
125
May 1962 – May 1967
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
29
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Mar 5, 1967
Comebacks
1
Feb 1967, after 14 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

4 books · 165 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 Captain#418125.4
The Distant Shore#8834.0
The Spiral Road#1424.2
The Inspector#1611.8

At their peak

1966 in books

Jan de Hartog's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1966 to May 1967. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Jacqueline Susann631
  2. 2Robert Crichton474
  3. 3Allen Drury374
  4. 4James Clavell351
  5. 5Harold Robbins316
  6. 6Rebecca West212
  7. 7James Michener188
  8. 8Elia Kazan180
  9. 9Mary Renault162
  10. 10Edwin O'Connor154

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.