Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Penelope Ashe
Charting Aug 31, 1969 → Nov 23, 1969 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.17%
- week of Nov 16, 1969
- Career Power
- 102
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 102
- December 1968 – November 1969
- Peak Five Years
- 102
- November 1964 – November 1969
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Nov 2, 1969
- 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 · 102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naked Came the Stranger | #3 | 13 | 102.1 |
At their peak
1968 in books →Penelope Ashe's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1968 to November 1969. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Philip Roth462
- 2Mario Puzo428
- 3Helen MacInnes389
- 4Jacqueline Susann351
- 5John le Carré277
- 6Arthur Hailey272
- 7Michael Crichton194
- 8Allen Drury167
- 9Vladimir Nabokov160
- 10Gladys Rockmore Davis133
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.