Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
John Barth
Charting Aug 28, 1966 → Nov 13, 1966 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.54%
- week of Nov 6, 1966
- Career Power
- 91
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 91
- November 1965 – November 1966
- Peak Five Years
- 91
- October 1961 – November 1966
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Sep 11, 1966
- 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 · 91 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giles Goat Boy | #4 | 12 | 91.1 |
At their peak
1965 in books →John Barth's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1965 to November 1966. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Michener581
- 2Jacqueline Susann477
- 3Harold Robbins362
- 4Irving Stone343
- 5Helen MacInnes302
- 6Bel Kaufman234
- 7James Clavell224
- 8Louis Auchincloss217
- 9Adela Rogers St. Johns196
- 10Mary Stewart139
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.