Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard Hughes
Charting Feb 25, 1962 → Jul 29, 1962 · 20 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.69%
- week of May 27, 1962
- Career Power
- 159
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 159
- August 1961 – July 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 159
- July 1957 – July 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 20
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Apr 8, 1962
- 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 · 159 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 Fox in the Attic | #2 | 20 | 158.9 |
At their peak
1961 in books →Richard Hughes's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1961 to July 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Irving Stone606
- 2J.D. Salinger573
- 3Harper Lee430
- 4Harold Robbins240
- 5Katherine Anne Porter215
- 6Taylor Caldwell204
- 7Mary Renault191
- 8Leon Uris184
- 9Edward Streeter183
- 10Richard Hughes159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.