Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mary Renault
Charting Dec 30, 1956 → Feb 25, 1979 · 126 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 8.85%
- week of Jul 1, 1962
- Career Power
- 788
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 197
- August 1961 – August 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 352
- August 1957 – August 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 43
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 126
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Apr 15, 1962
- Comebacks
- 5
- Aug 1958 · Mar 1962 · Dec 1966 · Jan 1970 · Dec 1972
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
8 books · 788 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Bull from the Sea | #2 | 25 | 197.4 | ||
| The Mask of Apollo | #4 | 22 | 162.2 | ||
| The Persian Boy | #4 | 23 | 158.0 | ||
| The King Must Die | #3 | 27 | 151.6 | ||
| Fire from Heaven | #5 | 14 | 83.2 | ||
| The Last of the Wine | #11 | 9 | 20.6 | ||
| The Praise Singer | #12 | 5 | 12.1 | ||
| The Charioteer | #13 | 1 | 2.8 |
At their peak
1961 in books →Mary Renault's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1961 to August 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J.D. Salinger587
- 2Irving Stone577
- 3Harper Lee394
- 4Katherine Anne Porter259
- 5Harold Robbins220
- 6Taylor Caldwell204
- 7Mary Renault197
- 8Edward Streeter183
- 9Richard Hughes159
- 10Patrick Dennis149
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.