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Shelley Mydans

Charting Oct 3, 1965Feb 13, 1966 · 18 weeks with chart power

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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.

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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:

  1. 1Bel Kaufman571
  2. 2James Michener494
  3. 3Arthur Hailey404
  4. 4Saul Bellow294
  5. 5Robin Moore230
  6. 6Mary Stewart210
  7. 7Morris West190
  8. 8Irving Stone182
  9. 9Herman Wouk179
  10. 10Len Deighton173

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.