Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Charting Jan 27, 1980 → Mar 16, 1980 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.67%
- week of Mar 16, 1980
- Career Power
- 8
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 8
- March 1979 – March 1980
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- December 1974 – March 1980
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Jan 27, 1980
- 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 · 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Love | #15 | 4 | 8.3 |
At their peak
1979 in books →Isaac Bashevis Singer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1979 to March 1980. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Ludlum426
- 2William Styron353
- 3Kurt Vonnegut288
- 4Herman Wouk263
- 5Ken Follett262
- 6Mary Stewart258
- 7General Sir John Hackett235
- 8Howard Fast209
- 9Joseph Heller207
- 10Stephen King203
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.