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E.M. Forster portraitE.M. Forster

Charting Oct 31, 1971Nov 14, 1971 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.87%
week of Nov 14, 1971
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
9
November 1970 – November 1971
Peak Five Years
9
November 1966 – November 1971
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Oct 31, 1971
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 · 9 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.

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At their peak

1970 in books

E.M. Forster's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1970 to November 1971. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Leon Uris434
  2. 2Irving Stone351
  3. 3Erich Segal286
  4. 4William Peter Blatty283
  5. 5Joseph Wambaugh261
  6. 6Thomas Tryon212
  7. 7Irwin Shaw212
  8. 8Ernest Hemingway207
  9. 9Agatha Christie186
  10. 10Victoria Holt179

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.