Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Gordon Merrick
Charting May 31, 1970 → Oct 11, 1970 · 16 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.86%
- week of Oct 11, 1970
- Career Power
- 77
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 77
- October 1969 – October 1970
- Peak Five Years
- 77
- October 1965 – October 1970
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 16
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Jul 19, 1970
- 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 · 77 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 Lord Won't Mind | #7 | 16 | 77.4 |
At their peak
1969 in books →Gordon Merrick's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1969 to October 1970. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Fowles552
- 2Mario Puzo438
- 3Erich Segal430
- 4Daphne Du Maurier279
- 5Taylor Caldwell241
- 6James Dickey233
- 7Graham Greene186
- 8Mary Stewart163
- 9Jimmy Breslin159
- 10Harold Robbins154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.