Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
E. L. Doctorow
Charting Aug 3, 1975 → Oct 4, 2009 · 111 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
13 crowns
19752009Longest reign 13 weeks (Aug–Nov 1975) · First crown Aug 1975
- Peak Power
- 12.08%
- week of Feb 1, 1976
- Career Power
- 850
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 13
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 456
- May 1975 – April 1976
- Peak Five Years
- 475
- August 1975 – October 1980
- Top-five weeks
- 55
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 111
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Aug 24, 1975
- Comebacks
- 2
- Nov 1980 · Apr 1989, after 8 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
8 books · 850 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ragtime | #1 | 39 | 455.7 | ||
| Loon Lake | #4 | 25 | 165.8 | ||
| Billy Bathgate | #4 | 12 | 82.5 | ||
| World's Fair | #7 | 13 | 49.6 | ||
| The March | #4 | 7 | 40.4 | ||
| The Waterworks | #5 | 8 | 32.5 | ||
| City of God | #11 | 4 | 11.8 | ||
| Homer & Langley | #7 | 3 | 11.5 |
At their peak
1975 in books →E. L. Doctorow's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1975 to April 1976. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1E. L. Doctorow456
- 2Agatha Christie383
- 3Judith Rossner360
- 4Arthur Hailey346
- 5Joseph Wambaugh237
- 6James Clavell235
- 7James Michener228
- 8Irving Stone208
- 9Michael Crichton184
- 10Jack Higgins180
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.