Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Shelley Mydans
Charting Oct 3, 1965 → Feb 13, 1966 · 18 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.33%
- week of Feb 13, 1966
- Career Power
- 105
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 105
- February 1965 – February 1966
- Peak Five Years
- 105
- January 1961 – February 1966
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 18
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Dec 12, 1965
- 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 · 105 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas | #6 | 18 | 105.4 |
At their peak
1965 in books →Shelley Mydans's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1965 to February 1966. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Bel Kaufman571
- 2James Michener494
- 3Arthur Hailey404
- 4Saul Bellow294
- 5Robin Moore230
- 6Mary Stewart210
- 7Morris West190
- 8Irving Stone182
- 9Herman Wouk179
- 10Len Deighton173
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.