Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Doris Lessing
Charting Jun 10, 1973 → Sep 9, 1973 · 11 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.38%
- week of Aug 26, 1973
- Career Power
- 54
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 54
- September 1972 – September 1973
- Peak Five Years
- 54
- September 1968 – September 1973
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 11
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Aug 26, 1973
- 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 · 54 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 Summer Before the Dark | #7 | 11 | 53.8 |
At their peak
1972 in books →Doris Lessing's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1972 to September 1973. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Richard Bach609
- 2Frederick Forsyth505
- 3Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn289
- 4Jacqueline Susann286
- 5Dan Jenkins274
- 6Kurt Vonnegut220
- 7Anya Seton197
- 8Herman Wouk186
- 9Mary Renault158
- 10Robert Crichton139
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.