Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Noah Gordon
Charting Aug 29, 1965 → Aug 17, 1969 · 26 weeks with chart power
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- Peak Power
- 4.30%
- week of Feb 13, 1966
- Career Power
- 121
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 112
- February 1965 – February 1966
- Peak Five Years
- 121
- August 1964 – August 1969
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 26
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Oct 10, 1965
- 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
2 books · 121 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 Rabbi | #7 | 24 | 112.0 | ||
| The Death Committee | #9 | 2 | 9.0 |
At their peak
1965 in books →Noah Gordon's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1965 to February 1966. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Bel Kaufman588
- 2James Michener523
- 3Arthur Hailey404
- 4Saul Bellow265
- 5Robin Moore230
- 6Irving Stone207
- 7Mary Stewart205
- 8Morris West190
- 9Herman Wouk179
- 10Len Deighton169
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.