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Agatha Christie

Charting Mar 12, 1934 → Mar 20, 1977 · 126 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
26 crowns
19341977
Longest reign 19 weeks (Nov 1975 – Apr 1976) · First crown Nov 1975

Peak Power: 13.60%; week of Apr 4, 1976
Career Power: 1,142; share-weeks
Crowns: 26; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 427; November 1975 – November 1976
Peak Five Years: 854; April 1972 – March 1977
Top-five weeks: 71; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 126; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Nov 30, 1975
Comebacks: 2; Dec 1970, after 36 quiet years · Oct 1975

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

10 books · 1,142 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
Curtain	#1November 1975	33	October 1975 – May 1976	400.0	400.0
Sleeping Murder	#1November 1976	26	September 1976 – March 1977	300.3	300.3
Passenger to Frankfurt	#3December 1970	25	December 1970 – June 1971	185.8	185.8
Postern of Fate	#4February 1974	14	December 1973 – March 1974	106.1	106.1
Nemesis	#8January 1972	11	December 1971 – March 1972	52.9	52.9
Elephants Can Remember	#7February 1973	10	January 1973 – April 1973	47.7	47.7
Murder in the Calais Coach	#4March 1934	3	March 1934 – March 1934	23.4	23.4
Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective	#7July 1934	2	July 1934 – July 1934	11.8	11.8
Death in the Air	#5April 1935	1	April 1935	8.3	8.3
By the Pricking of My Thumbs	#8February 1969	1	February 1969	5.5	5.5

At their peak

1975 in books →

Agatha Christie's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1975 to November 1976. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.