Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Anais Nin
Charting Aug 7, 1977 → May 7, 1978 · 36 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta of Venus | #4 | 36 | 183.3 |
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:
- 1Colleen McCullough646
- 2J.R.R. Tolkien444
- 3Richard Bach379
- 4John le Carré264
- 5Paul E. Erdman243
- 6Erich Segal192
- 7John Cheever189
- 8Anais Nin183
- 9John Fowles174
- 10Sidney Sheldon172
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.