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Charting Mar 3, 1963Mar 3, 1963 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.46%
week of Mar 3, 1963
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
March 1962 – March 1963
Peak Five Years
4
February 1958 – March 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Mar 3, 1963
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 · 4 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
The Man Who Played God#1014.2

At their peak

1962 in books

Robert St. John's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1962 to March 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Katherine Anne Porter506
  2. 2J.D. Salinger320
  3. 3Anne Morrow Lindbergh291
  4. 4Irving Stone253
  5. 5Herman Wouk250
  6. 6Allen Drury238
  7. 7Irving Wallace221
  8. 8Mary Renault197
  9. 9William Faulkner165
  10. 10Richard Hughes155

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.