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Jetta Carleton

Charting Feb 24, 1963Jun 16, 1963 · 17 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.58%
week of Jun 9, 1963
Career Power
110
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
110
June 1962 – June 1963
Peak Five Years
110
June 1958 – June 1963
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Mar 31, 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 · 110 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 Moonflower Vine#517109.6

At their peak

1962 in books

Jetta Carleton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1962 to June 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Katherine Anne Porter392
  2. 2J.D. Salinger319
  3. 3Anne Morrow Lindbergh291
  4. 4Allen Drury259
  5. 5Charles W. Bailey II240
  6. 6Fletcher Knebel240
  7. 7Herman Wouk227
  8. 8Irving Wallace221
  9. 9Richard McKenna215
  10. 10William Faulkner165

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.