Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Dan Jenkins
Charting Oct 15, 1972 → Feb 24, 1985 · 44 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 9.48%
- week of Mar 25, 1973
- Career Power
- 331
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 274
- May 1972 – May 1973
- Peak Five Years
- 274
- May 1968 – May 1973
- Top-five weeks
- 26
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 44
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Nov 12, 1972
- 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
2 books · 331 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-Tough | #3 | 29 | 273.8 | ||
| Life Its Ownself | #7 | 15 | 56.9 |
At their peak
1972 in books →Dan Jenkins's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1972 to May 1973. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Richard Bach704
- 2Herman Wouk419
- 3Frederick Forsyth337
- 4Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn289
- 5Taylor Caldwell275
- 6Dan Jenkins274
- 7Irving Wallace233
- 8Chaim Potok208
- 9Anya Seton168
- 10Mary Renault158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.