Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
George V. Higgins
Charting Mar 12, 1972 → Apr 29, 1973 · 14 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.71%
- week of Jun 11, 1972
- Career Power
- 73
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 64
- July 1971 – July 1972
- Peak Five Years
- 73
- May 1968 – April 1973
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 14
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of May 7, 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
2 books · 73 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 Friends of Eddie Coyle | #5 | 12 | 64.4 | ||
| The Diggers Game | #10 | 2 | 8.3 |
At their peak
1971 in books →George V. Higgins's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1971 to July 1972. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1William Peter Blatty553
- 2Herman Wouk419
- 3Frederick Forsyth409
- 4Arthur Hailey392
- 5Helen MacInnes219
- 6Thomas Tryon205
- 7Irving Wallace176
- 8Victoria Holt156
- 9Irving Stone147
- 10James A. Michener147
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.