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Len Deighton

Charting Jan 31, 1965 → Aug 18, 1991 · 139 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power: 7.34%; week of Apr 25, 1965
Career Power: 683; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 173; February 1965 – February 1966
Peak Five Years: 272; March 1979 – March 1984
Top-five weeks: 24; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 139; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 11.01%; week of Mar 7, 1965
Comebacks: 4; Apr 1979, after 13 quiet years · Jul 1981 · Feb 1983 · Feb 1989, after 5 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

13 books · 683 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
Funeral in Berlin	#3March 1965	20	January 1965 – June 1965	159.9	159.9
Ss-Gb	#3April 1979	16	March 1979 – July 1979	98.7	98.7
Berlin Game	#4January 1984	14	December 1983 – March 1984	80.7	80.7
The Billion Dollar Brain	#7February 1966	13	January 1966 – May 1966	67.8	67.8
XPD	#6June 1981	13	May 1981 – August 1981	52.8	52.8
Goodbye, Mickey Mouse	#9February 1983	13	December 1982 – March 1983	45.2	45.2
Winter	#8January 1988	11	January 1988 – March 1988	38.3	38.2
Spy Hook	#7January 1989	10	December 1988 – February 1989	37.7	37.7
Spy Sinker	#5September 1990	6	September 1990 – October 1990	31.3	30.8
London Match	#9January 1986	10	December 1985 – February 1986	29.7	29.6
Mexico Set	#8March 1985	8	March 1985 – April 1985	28.6	28.6
Spy Line	#12January 1990	4	January 1990 – January 1990	10.5	10.5
Mamista	#15August 1991	1	August 1991	2.1	2.1

At their peak

1965 in books →

Len Deighton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1965 to February 1966. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.