Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Alison Lurie
Charting Sep 1, 1974 → Dec 1, 1974 · 14 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.71%
- week of Dec 1, 1974
- Career Power
- 84
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 84
- December 1973 – December 1974
- Peak Five Years
- 84
- December 1969 – December 1974
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 14
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Oct 13, 1974
- 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 · 84 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 War Between the Tates | #5 | 14 | 84.2 |
At their peak
1973 in books →Alison Lurie's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1973 to December 1974. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Gore Vidal420
- 2Peter Benchley400
- 3Richard Adams349
- 4John le Carré288
- 5Allen Drury227
- 6Frederick Forsyth216
- 7Helen MacInnes209
- 8Graham Greene195
- 9Irving Wallace195
- 10James Michener170
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.