Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Carroll
Charting Jul 2, 1978 → Aug 6, 1978 · 6 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.78%
- week of Aug 6, 1978
- Career Power
- 21
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 21
- August 1977 – August 1978
- Peak Five Years
- 21
- August 1973 – August 1978
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 6
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Jul 16, 1978
- 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 · 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mortal Friends | #9 | 6 | 21.3 |
At their peak
1977 in books →James Carroll's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1977 to August 1978. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Colleen McCullough564
- 2J.R.R. Tolkien524
- 3Richard Bach378
- 4Sidney Sheldon336
- 5John le Carré268
- 6Judith Krantz234
- 7Robert Ludlum200
- 8Anais Nin179
- 9John Fowles174
- 10Marilyn French168
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.