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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn portraitAleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Charting Sep 24, 1972Apr 15, 1973 · 29 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
9.85%
week of Feb 4, 1973
Career Power
289
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
289
April 1972 – April 1973
Peak Five Years
289
April 1968 – April 1973
Top-five weeks
24
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
29
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Oct 8, 1972
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 · 289 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
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At their peak

1972 in books

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1972 to April 1973. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Richard Bach674
  2. 2Herman Wouk463
  3. 3Frederick Forsyth314
  4. 4Taylor Caldwell293
  5. 5Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn289
  6. 6Irving Wallace271
  7. 7Dan Jenkins261
  8. 8Chaim Potok208
  9. 9Mary Renault146
  10. 10Anya Seton138

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.