Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
William Golding
Charting May 17, 1964 → Aug 30, 1964 · 15 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.60%
- week of Jul 26, 1964
- Career Power
- 106
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 106
- September 1963 – August 1964
- Peak Five Years
- 106
- August 1959 – August 1964
- Top-five weeks
- 9
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 15
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Jun 14, 1964
- 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 · 106 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 Spire | #3 | 15 | 105.7 |
At their peak
1963 in books →William Golding's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1963 to August 1964. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mary McCarthy568
- 2John le Carré454
- 3Morris L. West336
- 4Helen MacInnes283
- 5James Michener262
- 6John O'Hara234
- 7John Cheever172
- 8Pearl S. Buck163
- 9Ian Fleming142
- 10Erich Maria Remarque138
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.