Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Harry Patterson
Charting Mar 20, 1977 → Oct 21, 1979 · 11 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.62%
- week of May 1, 1977
- Career Power
- 46
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 36
- May 1976 – May 1977
- Peak Five Years
- 46
- August 1974 – October 1979
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 11
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Apr 3, 1977
- 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 · 46 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 Valhalla Exchange | #7 | 7 | 36.1 | ||
| To Catch a King | #13 | 4 | 9.6 |
At their peak
1976 in books →Harry Patterson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1976 to May 1977. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris717
- 2Agatha Christie300
- 3Jacqueline Susann230
- 4Jack Higgins215
- 5Peter Benchley211
- 6Paul E. Erdman209
- 7Harold Robbins205
- 8Clive Cussler205
- 9Kurt Vonnegut191
- 10Mary Stewart191
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.