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Frederick Forsyth

Charting Sep 5, 1971 → Nov 11, 2018 · 233 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year: 1973

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
21 crowns
19712018
Longest reign 8 weeks (Sep–Nov 1984) · First crown Oct 1971

Peak Power: 12.88%; week of Apr 29, 1973
Career Power: 2,054; share-weeks
Crowns: 21; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 519; October 1972 – September 1973
Peak Five Years: 1,220; March 1970 – March 1975
Top-five weeks: 135; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 233; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Oct 17, 1971
Comebacks: 3; Mar 1980, after 5 quiet years · Sep 1984 · May 1989

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

15 books · 2,054 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
The Odessa File	#1March 1973	48	November 1972 – September 1973	518.9	518.9
The Day of the Jackal	#1October 1971	36	September 1971 – May 1972	409.4	409.4
The Dogs of War	#2August 1974	35	July 1974 – March 1975	291.8	291.8
The Fourth Protocol	#1September 1984	29	August 1984 – March 1985	261.6	261.6
The Devil's Alternative	#2February 1980	29	February 1980 – August 1980	252.5	252.5
The Negotiator	#2May 1989	18	April 1989 – August 1989	158.2	158.2
The Deceiver	#6September 1991	8	September 1991 – November 1991	41.7	41.7
The Fist of God	#7June 1994	10	May 1994 – July 1994	36.3	36.2
The Afghan	#4September 2006	5	September 2006 – October 2006	33.4	33.4
The Cobra	#4September 2010	4	September 2010 – September 2010	20.2	20.1
No Comebacks	#14July 1982	4	July 1982 – August 1982	9.3	9.3
The Kill List	#9September 2013	2	September 2013 – September 2013	7.5	7.5
Icon	#11November 1996	2	November 1996 – November 1996	6.0	6.0
Avenger	#12October 2003	2	October 2003 – October 2003	5.3	5.3
The Fox	#15November 2018	1	November 2018	2.1	2.1

At their peak

1972 in books →

Frederick Forsyth's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1972 to September 1973. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.