Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jorge Amado
Charting Oct 14, 1962 → Nov 18, 1962 · 6 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.05%
- week of Nov 18, 1962
- Career Power
- 13
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 13
- November 1961 – November 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 13
- November 1957 – November 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 6
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.40%
- week of Nov 4, 1962
- 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 · 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon | #14 | 6 | 12.6 |
At their peak
1961 in books →Jorge Amado's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1961 to November 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J.D. Salinger500
- 2Katherine Anne Porter432
- 3Irving Stone430
- 4Herman Wouk250
- 5Harper Lee239
- 6Anne Morrow Lindbergh239
- 7Taylor Caldwell204
- 8Mary Renault197
- 9Irving Wallace177
- 10Richard Hughes159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.