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Alexander Solzhenitsyn portraitAlexander Solzhenitsyn

Charting Oct 13, 1968Mar 16, 1969 · 22 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The First Circle#422135.7

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:

  1. 1Arthur Hailey654
  2. 2John Updike394
  3. 3Helen MacInnes345
  4. 4Taylor Caldwell331
  5. 5Allen Drury249
  6. 6Gore Vidal247
  7. 7Leon Uris225
  8. 8John le Carré217
  9. 9Fletcher Knebel210
  10. 10Charles Portis164

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.