Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Noel Coward
Charting Dec 4, 1960 → Jun 11, 1961 · 28 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.99%
- week of Mar 26, 1961
- Career Power
- 101
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 101
- June 1960 – June 1961
- Peak Five Years
- 101
- June 1956 – June 1961
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 28
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Mar 5, 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 · 101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pomp and Circumstance | #7 | 28 | 100.8 |
At their peak
1960 in books →Noel Coward's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1960 to June 1961. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James A. Michener677
- 2Allen Drury601
- 3Harper Lee411
- 4Guiseppe di Lampedusa304
- 5Andre Schwarz-Bart302
- 6Mary Ellen Chase217
- 7Irving Wallace206
- 8Elizabeth Goudge166
- 9Graham Greene143
- 10Helen MacInnes140
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.