Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Roald Dahl
Charting Feb 28, 1960 → May 15, 1960 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.24%
- week of May 8, 1960
- Career Power
- 37
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 37
- May 1959 – May 1960
- Peak Five Years
- 37
- May 1955 – May 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Mar 13, 1960
- 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 · 37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KISS KISS | #10 | 12 | 36.5 |
At their peak
1959 in books →Roald Dahl's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1959 to May 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris511
- 2Allen Drury510
- 3Taylor Caldwell437
- 4James A. Michener336
- 5D.H. Lawrence246
- 6Boris Pasternak210
- 7Robert Ruark192
- 8Morris L. West192
- 9Eugene Burdick191
- 10William J. Lederer191
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.