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John Fowles

Charting Aug 18, 1963 → Nov 10, 1985 · 116 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
12 crowns
19631985
Longest reign 11 weeks (Feb–May 1970) · First crown Feb 1970

Peak Power: 13.03%; week of May 3, 1970
Career Power: 979; share-weeks
Crowns: 12; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 578; November 1969 – November 1970
Peak Five Years: 587; December 1965 – November 1970
Top-five weeks: 62; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 116; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Feb 8, 1970
Comebacks: 3; Dec 1969, after 6 quiet years · Feb 1975 · Nov 1977

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

6 books · 979 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
The French Lieutenant's Woman	#1February 1970	53	November 1969 – November 1970	582.6	582.6
Daniel Martin	#4November 1977	27	September 1977 – April 1978	173.6	173.5
The Ebony Tower	#4February 1975	16	December 1974 – March 1975	118.8	118.8
The Collector	#6September 1963	10	August 1963 – October 1963	63.3	63.3
A Maggot	#6October 1985	9	September 1985 – November 1985	36.5	36.5
The Magus	#10February 1966	1	February 1966	4.2	4.2

At their peak

1969 in books →

John Fowles's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1969 to November 1970. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.