Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard Bradford
Charting Jun 30, 1968 → Oct 27, 1968 · 15 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Sky at Morning | #5 | 15 | 89.6 |
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:
- 1Leon Uris465
- 2Arthur Hailey440
- 3William Styron438
- 4John Updike339
- 5Catherine Marshall302
- 6Fletcher Knebel288
- 7Gore Vidal266
- 8Taylor Caldwell227
- 9Mary Stewart188
- 10Henry Sutton135
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.