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Jimmy Breslin portraitJimmy Breslin

Charting Jan 18, 1970Aug 10, 1986 · 44 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight#526159.0
World Without End, Amen#417112.1
Table Money#1412.4

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:

  1. 1Mario Puzo594
  2. 2John Fowles439
  3. 3Daphne Du Maurier284
  4. 4Jacqueline Susann270
  5. 5Erich Segal256
  6. 6Michael Crichton204
  7. 7Graham Greene186
  8. 8Philip Roth170
  9. 9Jimmy Breslin159
  10. 10Harold Robbins154

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.