Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
J.R.R. Tolkien
Charting Sep 25, 1977 → Oct 7, 2018 · 85 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
24 crowns
19772018Longest reign 23 weeks (Oct 1977 – Mar 1978) · First crown Oct 1977
- Peak Power
- 13.72%
- week of Mar 5, 1978
- Career Power
- 740
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 24
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 543
- September 1977 – December 1978
- Peak Five Years
- 699
- January 1976 – April 1981
- Top-five weeks
- 46
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 85
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 16.77%
- week of Dec 18, 1977
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jan 1981
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
5 books · 740 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 Silmarillion | #1 | 59 | 594.9 | ||
| Unfinished Tales | #3 | 20 | 100.2 | ||
| The Fall of Gondolin | #1 | 4 | 30.0 | ||
| Beren and LÚThien | #6 | 2 | 10.9 | ||
| The Hobbit | #12 | 2 | 3.7 |
At their peak
1977 in books →J.R.R. Tolkien's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1977 to December 1978. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J.R.R. Tolkien543
- 2Colleen McCullough477
- 3Richard Bach337
- 4Sidney Sheldon336
- 5John le Carré268
- 6Judith Krantz250
- 7Robert Ludlum189
- 8John Fowles174
- 9Marilyn French168
- 10Howard Fast142
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.