Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jean Genet
Charting Nov 24, 1963 → Nov 24, 1963 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.46%
- week of Nov 24, 1963
- Career Power
- 4
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 4
- November 1962 – November 1963
- Peak Five Years
- 4
- November 1958 – November 1963
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Nov 24, 1963
- 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
1 book · 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady of the Flowers | #10 | 1 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1962 in books →Jean Genet's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1962 to November 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Morris L. West333
- 2John O'Hara299
- 3J.D. Salinger291
- 4Daphne Du Maurier259
- 5Richard McKenna255
- 6Charles W. Bailey II231
- 7Fletcher Knebel231
- 8Taylor Caldwell184
- 9John Rechy175
- 10Allen Drury174
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.