Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Colleen McCullough
Charting May 22, 1977 → Oct 15, 2000 · 126 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
30 crowns
19772000Longest reign 15 weeks (Jun–Sep 1977) · First crown Jun 1977
- Peak Power
- 12.64%
- week of Mar 5, 1978
- Career Power
- 1,240
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 30
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 672
- June 1977 – June 1978
- Peak Five Years
- 1,073
- March 1977 – June 1982
- Top-five weeks
- 83
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 126
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Jun 19, 1977
- Comebacks
- 2
- Nov 1981 · May 1987, after 5 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
6 books · 1,240 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 Thorn Birds | #1 | 59 | 713.0 | ||
| An Indecent Obsession | #1 | 33 | 359.5 | ||
| The Ladies of Missalonghi | #3 | 12 | 83.6 | ||
| The First Man in Rome | #7 | 8 | 41.6 | ||
| A Creed for the Third Millennium | #10 | 9 | 26.9 | ||
| Morgan's Run | #9 | 5 | 15.0 |
At their peak
1977 in books →Colleen McCullough's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1977 to June 1978. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Colleen McCullough672
- 2J.R.R. Tolkien475
- 3Richard Bach395
- 4John le Carré268
- 5Sidney Sheldon228
- 6Paul E. Erdman201
- 7Anais Nin183
- 8John Fowles174
- 9Robert Ludlum160
- 10Robert S. Elegant151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.