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Alison Lurie

Charting Sep 1, 1974Dec 1, 1974 · 14 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The War Between the Tates#51484.2

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:

  1. 1Gore Vidal420
  2. 2Peter Benchley400
  3. 3Richard Adams349
  4. 4John le Carré288
  5. 5Allen Drury227
  6. 6Frederick Forsyth216
  7. 7Helen MacInnes209
  8. 8Graham Greene195
  9. 9Irving Wallace195
  10. 10James Michener170

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.