Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
F. Lee Bailey
Charting Feb 11, 1979 → Mar 11, 1979 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.47%
- week of Mar 11, 1979
- Career Power
- 5
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 5
- December 1977 – March 1979
- Peak Five Years
- 5
- December 1973 – March 1979
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Mar 11, 1979
- 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 · 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secrets | #13 | 2 | 5.2 |
At their peak
1977 in books →F. Lee Bailey's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1977 to March 1979. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J.R.R. Tolkien428
- 2Sidney Sheldon336
- 3Colleen McCullough323
- 4James A. Michener290
- 5Richard Bach263
- 6Judith Krantz252
- 7Herman Wouk238
- 8Howard Fast194
- 9Robert Ludlum189
- 10John le Carré171
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.