Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Chuck Barris
Charting May 5, 1974 → Jun 16, 1974 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.92%
- week of Jun 16, 1974
- Career Power
- 37
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 37
- June 1973 – June 1974
- Peak Five Years
- 37
- June 1969 – June 1974
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of May 5, 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 · 37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You and Me Babe | #7 | 7 | 37.4 |
At their peak
1973 in books →Chuck Barris's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1973 to June 1974. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Gore Vidal405
- 2Mary Stewart387
- 3Graham Greene296
- 4Kurt Vonnegut277
- 5Jacqueline Susann240
- 6Allen Drury239
- 7Paul Emil Erdman189
- 8Peter Benchley170
- 9Thornton Wilder158
- 10Lawrence Sanders156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.