Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Joan Didion
Charting Sep 6, 1970 → Sep 29, 1996 · 21 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.87%
- week of Jul 31, 1977
- Career Power
- 89
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 72
- August 1976 – July 1977
- Peak Five Years
- 72
- August 1972 – July 1977
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 21
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of May 15, 1977
- 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
4 books · 89 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Book of Common Prayer | #8 | 15 | 71.7 | ||
| Democracy | #12 | 4 | 11.1 | ||
| Play It as It Lays | #10 | 1 | 4.2 | ||
| The Last Thing He Wanted | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1976 in books →Joan Didion's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1976 to July 1977. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris645
- 2Paul E. Erdman327
- 3Agatha Christie300
- 4Erich Segal240
- 5John Cheever216
- 6Jack Higgins215
- 7Jacqueline Susann212
- 8Clive Cussler205
- 9Kurt Vonnegut191
- 10Mary Stewart191
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.