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NYT Hardcover Fiction

Author of the Year 1964

John le Carré

34 crowns · 45 weeks among the top five authors · Era Power 632

Top authors of 1964

#	Author	Era Power	Crowns	Top-five weeks
1	John le Carré	632	34	45
2	Mary McCarthy	359	7	26
3	LULeon Uris	251	0	17
4	Louis Auchincloss	249	1	22
5	Gore Vidal	218	0	16
6	Helen MacInnes	210	0	18
7	JCJohn Cheever	172	0	14
8	MSMary Stewart	170	0	17
9	Ian Fleming	161	0	4
10	Saul Bellow	159	10	11

Every #1 bestseller of 19644 books reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list

First week at #1	Title	Author	Weeks at #1
Jan 5, 1964	The Group	Mary McCarthy	7
Feb 23, 1964	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	John le Carré	34
Oct 4, 1964	The Rector of Justin	Louis Auchincloss	1
Oct 25, 1964	Herzog	Saul Bellow	10

Biggest books of 1964Titles that entered the list in 1964, by Book Power

#	Title	Author	Peak	Weeks	Book Power
1	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	John le Carré	#1	56	665.7
2	Herzog	Saul Bellow	#1	42	525.6
3	The Rector of Justin	Louis Auchincloss	#1	35	384.6
4	Candy	Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg	#2	35	316.2
5	The Man	Irving Wallace	#2	38	303.3
6	Armegeddon	Leon Uris	#2	34	283.2
7	Convention	Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II	#2	27	262.5
8	This Rough Magic	Mary Stewart	#2	30	258.0
9	Julian	Gore Vidal	#2	32	242.0
10	The Wapshot Scandal	John Cheever	#4	23	172.0

Author of the Year and the rankings are the ChartReign Power model: the author with the most chart power over the year, not the most #1s. Crowns are weeks crowned Author of the Week. How it works