Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
George Higgins
Charting Apr 28, 1974 → Apr 28, 1974 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.46%
- week of Apr 28, 1974
- Career Power
- 4
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 4
- May 1973 – April 1974
- Peak Five Years
- 4
- May 1969 – April 1974
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Apr 28, 1974
- 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 · 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cogan's Trade | #10 | 1 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1973 in books →George Higgins's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1973 to April 1974. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mary Stewart387
- 2Jacqueline Susann342
- 3Gore Vidal338
- 4Kurt Vonnegut328
- 5Graham Greene296
- 6Allen Drury224
- 7Frederick Forsyth195
- 8Paul Emil Erdman189
- 9Thornton Wilder158
- 10Lawrence Sanders156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.