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Anais Nin portraitAnais Nin

Charting Aug 7, 1977May 7, 1978 · 36 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.38%
week of Oct 30, 1977
Career Power
183
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
183
May 1977 – May 1978
Peak Five Years
183
May 1973 – May 1978
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
36
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Aug 14, 1977
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 · 183 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
Delta of Venus#436183.3

At their peak

1977 in books

Anais Nin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1977 to May 1978. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Colleen McCullough646
  2. 2J.R.R. Tolkien444
  3. 3Richard Bach379
  4. 4John le Carré264
  5. 5Paul E. Erdman243
  6. 6Erich Segal192
  7. 7John Cheever189
  8. 8Anais Nin183
  9. 9John Fowles174
  10. 10Sidney Sheldon172

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.