Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Noel Behn
Charting Jul 24, 1966 → Sep 18, 1966 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.31%
- week of Aug 28, 1966
- Career Power
- 32
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 32
- September 1965 – September 1966
- Peak Five Years
- 32
- September 1961 – September 1966
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Jul 31, 1966
- 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 · 32 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 Kremlin Letter | #9 | 7 | 31.7 |
At their peak
1965 in books →Noel Behn's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1965 to September 1966. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Michener670
- 2Irving Stone364
- 3Jacqueline Susann361
- 4Bel Kaufman334
- 5Helen MacInnes302
- 6Harold Robbins284
- 7Louis Auchincloss217
- 8Mary Stewart190
- 9Adela Rogers St. Johns187
- 10Arthur Hailey152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.