Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Sarah Gainham
Charting Aug 13, 1967 → Oct 26, 1969 · 25 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.87%
- week of Nov 5, 1967
- Career Power
- 156
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 113
- December 1966 – December 1967
- Peak Five Years
- 156
- October 1964 – October 1969
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 25
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Sep 24, 1967
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 1969
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
2 books · 156 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Night Falls on the City | #3 | 16 | 112.9 | ||
| A Place in the Country | #7 | 9 | 43.5 |
At their peak
1966 in books →Sarah Gainham's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1966 to December 1967. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Elia Kazan521
- 2Robert Crichton389
- 3Thornton Wilder320
- 4Chaim Potok307
- 5Allen Drury303
- 6Jacqueline Susann236
- 7Gore Vidal198
- 8Ira Levin178
- 9Rebecca West156
- 10Mary Renault134
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.