Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Charting Oct 13, 1968 → Mar 16, 1969 · 22 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.09%
- week of Mar 16, 1969
- Career Power
- 136
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 136
- March 1968 – March 1969
- Peak Five Years
- 136
- March 1964 – March 1969
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 22
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Feb 9, 1969
- 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 · 136 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 First Circle | #4 | 22 | 135.7 |
At their peak
1968 in books →Alexander Solzhenitsyn's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1968 to March 1969. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Arthur Hailey654
- 2John Updike394
- 3Helen MacInnes345
- 4Taylor Caldwell331
- 5Allen Drury249
- 6Gore Vidal247
- 7Leon Uris225
- 8John le Carré217
- 9Fletcher Knebel210
- 10Charles Portis164
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.