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Philip Roth

Charting Jul 8, 1962 → Oct 12, 2008 · 109 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
14 crowns
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Longest reign 14 weeks (Mar–Jun 1969) · First crown Mar 1969

Peak Power: 12.42%; week of Aug 3, 1969
Career Power: 766; share-weeks
Crowns: 14; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 462; December 1968 – November 1969
Peak Five Years: 578; April 1967 – March 1972
Top-five weeks: 38; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 109; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Mar 16, 1969
Comebacks: 4; Aug 1967, after 5 quiet years · Mar 1969 · Feb 1972 · Nov 2004, after 32 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

12 books · 766 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
Portnoy's Complaint	#1March 1969	40	February 1969 – November 1969	462.2	462.2
Our Gang	#6November 1971	18	November 1971 – March 1972	97.4	97.4
The Plot Against America	#2October 2004	16	October 2004 – February 2005	85.8	84.9
Letting Go	#9September 1962	11	July 1962 – September 1962	39.6	39.6
Everyman	#8May 2006	5	May 2006 – June 2006	20.4	20.4
When She Was Good	#8July 1967	4	July 1967 – August 1967	18.6	18.6
The Counterlife	#12January 1987	5	January 1987 – February 1987	14.6	14.2
The Ghost Writer	#11November 1979	3	November 1979 – November 1979	8.1	8.1
Deception	#13April 1990	3	April 1990 – April 1990	6.9	6.9
Indignation	#10October 2008	2	October 2008 – October 2008	6.6	6.6
Exit Ghost	#12October 2007	1	October 2007	3.2	3.2
Zuckerman Unbound	#15July 1981	1	July 1981	2.1	2.1

At their peak

1968 in books →

Philip Roth's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1968 to November 1969. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.