Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jimmy Breslin
Charting Jan 18, 1970 → Aug 10, 1986 · 44 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.04%
- week of May 10, 1970
- Career Power
- 273
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 159
- July 1969 – July 1970
- Peak Five Years
- 271
- February 1969 – January 1974
- Top-five weeks
- 10
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 44
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Oct 14, 1973
- Comebacks
- 1
- Oct 1973
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
3 books · 273 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 Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight | #5 | 26 | 159.0 | ||
| World Without End, Amen | #4 | 17 | 112.1 | ||
| Table Money | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
1969 in books →Jimmy Breslin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1969 to July 1970. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mario Puzo594
- 2John Fowles439
- 3Daphne Du Maurier284
- 4Jacqueline Susann270
- 5Erich Segal256
- 6Michael Crichton204
- 7Graham Greene186
- 8Philip Roth170
- 9Jimmy Breslin159
- 10Harold Robbins154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.