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Jun'ichiro Tanizaki portraitJun'ichiro Tanizaki

Charting Mar 19, 1961Mar 19, 1961 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.23%
week of Mar 19, 1961
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
March 1960 – March 1961
Peak Five Years
2
March 1956 – March 1961
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of Mar 19, 1961
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 · 2 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.

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At their peak

1960 in books

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1960 to March 1961. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James A. Michener731
  2. 2Allen Drury678
  3. 3Guiseppe di Lampedusa345
  4. 4Harper Lee288
  5. 5John O'Hara219
  6. 6Mary Ellen Chase217
  7. 7Irving Wallace213
  8. 8Marcia Davenport183
  9. 9Elizabeth Goudge161
  10. 10Andre Schwarz-Bart149

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.