Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Nathaniel Benchley
Charting Aug 27, 1961 → Sep 24, 1961 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.64%
- week of Sep 24, 1961
- Career Power
- 7
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 7
- October 1960 – September 1961
- Peak Five Years
- 7
- September 1956 – September 1961
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Sep 17, 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 · 7 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 Off-Islanders | #13 | 3 | 6.9 |
At their peak
1960 in books →Nathaniel Benchley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1960 to September 1961. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Harper Lee553
- 2James A. Michener523
- 3Allen Drury410
- 4Andre Schwarz-Bart373
- 5Irving Stone354
- 6Graham Greene191
- 7Elizabeth Goudge166
- 8Leon Uris156
- 9Helen MacInnes140
- 10Mary Ellen Chase138
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.