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Jacqueline Susann portraitJacqueline Susann

Charting Mar 13, 1966Jan 2, 1977 · 158 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    49 crowns

    19661977

    Longest reign 28 weeks (May–Nov 1966) · First crown May 1966

Peak Power
14.18%
week of Nov 13, 1966
Career Power
1,756
share-weeks
Crowns
49
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
670
April 1966 – April 1967
Peak Five Years
1,148
January 1965 – January 1970
Top-five weeks
128
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
158
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of May 8, 1966
Comebacks
3
Jun 1969 · May 1973 · Aug 1976

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

4 books · 1,756 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Valley of the Dolls#165764.2
The Love Machine#132384.3
Once Is Not Enough#136377.6
Dolores#225229.8

At their peak

1966 in books

Jacqueline Susann's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1966 to April 1967. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Jacqueline Susann670
  2. 2Robert Crichton394
  3. 3Harold Robbins388
  4. 4James Clavell351
  5. 5Allen Drury310
  6. 6James Michener276
  7. 7Rebecca West207
  8. 8Helen MacInnes188
  9. 9Adela Rogers St. Johns175
  10. 10Mary Renault158

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.