Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Shirley Jackson
Charting Nov 4, 1962 → Jan 20, 1963 · 11 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.44%
- week of Jan 20, 1963
- Career Power
- 37
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 37
- January 1962 – January 1963
- Peak Five Years
- 37
- January 1958 – January 1963
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 11
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Nov 25, 1962
- 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 · 37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| We Have Always Lived in the Castle | #9 | 11 | 37.2 |
At their peak
1962 in books →Shirley Jackson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1962 to January 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Katherine Anne Porter488
- 2J.D. Salinger384
- 3Irving Stone329
- 4Anne Morrow Lindbergh289
- 5Herman Wouk250
- 6Irving Wallace214
- 7Mary Renault197
- 8Allen Drury180
- 9Taylor Caldwell171
- 10William Faulkner165
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.