Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Roderick Thorp
Charting Jul 10, 1966 → Oct 23, 1966 · 15 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.48%
- week of Oct 16, 1966
- Career Power
- 100
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 100
- October 1965 – October 1966
- Peak Five Years
- 100
- October 1961 – October 1966
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 15
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Sep 4, 1966
- 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 · 100 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 Detective | #4 | 15 | 100.0 |
At their peak
1965 in books →Roderick Thorp's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1965 to October 1966. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Michener624
- 2Jacqueline Susann434
- 3Irving Stone364
- 4Harold Robbins339
- 5Helen MacInnes302
- 6Bel Kaufman272
- 7Louis Auchincloss217
- 8Adela Rogers St. Johns196
- 9James Clavell195
- 10Mary Stewart172
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.