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Eric Ambler

Charting May 13, 1951Sep 24, 1972 · 15 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.45%
week of Sep 24, 1972
Career Power
64
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
50
October 1971 – September 1972
Peak Five Years
50
October 1967 – September 1972
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Sep 3, 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

3 books · 64 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
The Levanter#71050.2
The Schirmer Inheritance#11412.0
Judgement on Deltchev#1512.1

At their peak

1971 in books

Eric Ambler's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1971 to September 1972. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Herman Wouk567
  2. 2Arthur Hailey392
  3. 3William Peter Blatty386
  4. 4Frederick Forsyth369
  5. 5Irving Wallace284
  6. 6Richard Bach260
  7. 7Taylor Caldwell222
  8. 8Helen MacInnes219
  9. 9Chaim Potok175
  10. 10John Updike125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.