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
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top author
- 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 (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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 |