Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Charting Sep 24, 1972 → Apr 15, 1973 · 29 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1914 | #2 | 29 | 289.4 |
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:
- 1Richard Bach674
- 2Herman Wouk463
- 3Frederick Forsyth314
- 4Taylor Caldwell293
- 5Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn289
- 6Irving Wallace271
- 7Dan Jenkins261
- 8Chaim Potok208
- 9Mary Renault146
- 10Anya Seton138
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.