Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Erica Jong
Charting Apr 3, 1977 → Mar 18, 1990 · 28 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.67%
- week of Jun 12, 1977
- Career Power
- 164
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 91
- September 1976 – September 1977
- Peak Five Years
- 161
- September 1975 – November 1980
- Top-five weeks
- 8
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 28
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Sep 14, 1980
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 1980
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 · 164 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How to Save Your Own Life | #5 | 15 | 91.3 | ||
| Fanny | #3 | 12 | 70.1 | ||
| Any Woman's Blues | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
1976 in books →Erica Jong's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1976 to September 1977. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris586
- 2Paul E. Erdman402
- 3Agatha Christie300
- 4Erich Segal284
- 5John Cheever248
- 6Colleen McCullough222
- 7Jack Higgins215
- 8Clive Cussler205
- 9Kurt Vonnegut191
- 10John D. MacDonald153
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.