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Shirley Jackson portraitShirley Jackson

Charting Nov 4, 1962Jan 20, 1963 · 11 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
We Have Always Lived in the Castle#91137.2

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:

  1. 1Katherine Anne Porter488
  2. 2J.D. Salinger384
  3. 3Irving Stone329
  4. 4Anne Morrow Lindbergh289
  5. 5Herman Wouk250
  6. 6Irving Wallace214
  7. 7Mary Renault197
  8. 8Allen Drury180
  9. 9Taylor Caldwell171
  10. 10William Faulkner165

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.