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Sarah Gainham

Charting Aug 13, 1967Oct 26, 1969 · 25 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Night Falls on the City#316112.9
A Place in the Country#7943.5

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:

  1. 1Elia Kazan521
  2. 2Robert Crichton389
  3. 3Thornton Wilder320
  4. 4Chaim Potok307
  5. 5Allen Drury303
  6. 6Jacqueline Susann236
  7. 7Gore Vidal198
  8. 8Ira Levin178
  9. 9Rebecca West156
  10. 10Mary Renault134

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.