Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Rebecca West
Charting Mar 16, 1936 → Apr 23, 1967 · 56 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 8.42%
- week of Feb 26, 1967
- Career Power
- 479
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 212
- May 1966 – April 1967
- Peak Five Years
- 212
- April 1962 – April 1967
- Top-five weeks
- 35
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 56
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Apr 6, 1936
- Comebacks
- 2
- Jan 1957, after 20 quiet years · Nov 1966, after 9 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
3 books · 479 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 Birds Fall Down | #3 | 25 | 211.5 | ||
| The Fountain Overflows | #2 | 20 | 155.7 | ||
| The Thinking Reed | #2 | 11 | 111.6 |
At their peak
1966 in books →Rebecca West's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1966 to April 1967. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Jacqueline Susann665
- 2Robert Crichton419
- 3Harold Robbins373
- 4James Clavell351
- 5Allen Drury330
- 6James Michener247
- 7Rebecca West212
- 8Helen MacInnes166
- 9Adela Rogers St. Johns164
- 10Mary Renault162
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.