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John Clive

Charting Jan 1, 1978Feb 19, 1978 · 8 weeks with chart power

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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.

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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:

  1. 1Colleen McCullough516
  2. 2Paul E. Erdman366
  3. 3J.R.R. Tolkien320
  4. 4Richard Bach320
  5. 5Erich Segal301
  6. 6Leon Uris265
  7. 7John Cheever253
  8. 8John le Carré200
  9. 9John D. MacDonald170
  10. 10Anais Nin162

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.