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Elie Wiesel portraitElie Wiesel

Charting Mar 22, 1970May 24, 1970 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.54%
week of May 3, 1970
Career Power
35
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
35
June 1969 – May 1970
Peak Five Years
35
May 1965 – May 1970
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Mar 22, 1970
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 · 35 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
A Beggar in Jerusalem#8735.2

At their peak

1969 in books

Elie Wiesel's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1969 to May 1970. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Mario Puzo650
  2. 2Jacqueline Susann379
  3. 3John Fowles339
  4. 4Daphne Du Maurier284
  5. 5Philip Roth277
  6. 6Michael Crichton234
  7. 7Graham Greene156
  8. 8Harold Robbins154
  9. 9Vladimir Nabokov153
  10. 10Erich Segal139

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.