Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
John Clive
Charting Jan 1, 1978 → Feb 19, 1978 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.69%
- week of Feb 19, 1978
- Career Power
- 9
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 9
- February 1977 – February 1978
- Peak Five Years
- 9
- March 1973 – February 1978
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.38%
- week of Feb 19, 1978
- 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 · 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KG 200with J.D. Gilman | #13 | 8 | 9.0 |
At their peak
1977 in books →John Clive's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1977 to February 1978. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Colleen McCullough516
- 2Paul E. Erdman366
- 3J.R.R. Tolkien320
- 4Richard Bach320
- 5Erich Segal301
- 6Leon Uris265
- 7John Cheever253
- 8John le Carré200
- 9John D. MacDonald170
- 10Anais Nin162
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.