Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Nikos Kazantzakis
Charting May 10, 1953 → Dec 4, 1960 · 23 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.58%
- week of Dec 4, 1960
- Career Power
- 77
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 45
- December 1959 – December 1960
- Peak Five Years
- 45
- December 1955 – December 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 23
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Oct 9, 1960
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 1960, 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
3 books · 77 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 Last Temptation of Christ | #7 | 13 | 45.2 | ||
| Zorba the Greek | #8 | 9 | 29.6 | ||
| The Greek Passion | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
1959 in books →Nikos Kazantzakis's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1959 to December 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James A. Michener720
- 2Allen Drury691
- 3Guiseppe di Lampedusa313
- 4Marcia Davenport230
- 5Taylor Caldwell224
- 6Irving Wallace208
- 7Robert Ruark166
- 8Morris L. West152
- 9Mary Ellen Chase147
- 10Cameron Hawley142
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.