Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Lawrence Durrell
Charting Oct 20, 1957 → Jul 21, 1968 · 34 weeks with chart power
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- Peak Power
- 3.25%
- week of Jun 5, 1960
- Career Power
- 130
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 69
- November 1959 – November 1960
- Peak Five Years
- 82
- November 1955 – November 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 34
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of May 8, 1960
- Comebacks
- 1
- May 1968, after 7 quiet years
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
5 books · 130 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clea | #7 | 13 | 54.0 | ||
| Tunc | #7 | 10 | 47.8 | ||
| The Black Book | #11 | 6 | 15.4 | ||
| Mountolive | #11 | 4 | 10.9 | ||
| Justine | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1959 in books →Lawrence Durrell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1959 to November 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Allen Drury695
- 2James A. Michener691
- 3Guiseppe di Lampedusa285
- 4Taylor Caldwell238
- 5Marcia Davenport230
- 6Irving Wallace202
- 7Robert Ruark189
- 8Morris L. West169
- 9John Hersey155
- 10Leon Uris147
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.