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Richard Bradford

Charting Jun 30, 1968Oct 27, 1968 · 15 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.84%
week of Oct 13, 1968
Career Power
90
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
90
November 1967 – October 1968
Peak Five Years
90
October 1963 – October 1968
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Sep 8, 1968
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 · 90 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Red Sky at Morning#51589.6

At their peak

1967 in books

Richard Bradford's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1967 to October 1968. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Leon Uris465
  2. 2Arthur Hailey440
  3. 3William Styron438
  4. 4John Updike339
  5. 5Catherine Marshall302
  6. 6Fletcher Knebel288
  7. 7Gore Vidal266
  8. 8Taylor Caldwell227
  9. 9Mary Stewart188
  10. 10Henry Sutton135

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.