Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
William Faulkner
Charting Apr 1, 1935 → Dec 30, 1962 · 78 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.06%
- week of Oct 7, 1962
- Career Power
- 432
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 165
- December 1961 – December 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 210
- December 1957 – December 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 20
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 78
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.84%
- week of Apr 8, 1935
- Comebacks
- 5
- Oct 1951, after 16 quiet years · Aug 1954 · Jun 1957 · Jan 1960 · Jul 1962
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
8 books · 432 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Reivers | #4 | 26 | 165.4 | ||
| A Fable | #4 | 15 | 100.1 | ||
| The Town | #6 | 12 | 62.6 | ||
| The Mansion | #10 | 13 | 44.9 | ||
| Requiem for a Nun | #10 | 7 | 23.9 | ||
| Pylon | #4 | 3 | 22.6 | ||
| Wild Palms | #6 | 1 | 7.3 | ||
| Absalom, Absalom | #8 | 1 | 5.5 |
At their peak
1961 in books →William Faulkner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1961 to December 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Katherine Anne Porter468
- 2J.D. Salinger427
- 3Irving Stone367
- 4Anne Morrow Lindbergh272
- 5Herman Wouk250
- 6Irving Wallace203
- 7Mary Renault197
- 8Taylor Caldwell189
- 9Harper Lee184
- 10William Faulkner165
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.