Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Mills
Charting Aug 20, 1972 → Oct 8, 1972 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.45%
- week of Oct 8, 1972
- Career Power
- 33
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 33
- October 1971 – October 1972
- Peak Five Years
- 33
- October 1967 – October 1972
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Sep 24, 1972
- 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 · 33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report to the Commissioner | #7 | 7 | 33.3 |
At their peak
1971 in books →James Mills's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1971 to October 1972. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk591
- 2Arthur Hailey375
- 3William Peter Blatty357
- 4Frederick Forsyth344
- 5Irving Wallace296
- 6Richard Bach289
- 7Taylor Caldwell243
- 8Helen MacInnes208
- 9Chaim Potok188
- 10John Updike125
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.