Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
John Gardner
Charting Feb 11, 1973 → Sep 10, 1989 · 103 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.89%
- week of May 6, 1973
- Career Power
- 446
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 104
- March 1973 – February 1974
- Peak Five Years
- 199
- April 1972 – April 1977
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 103
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Mar 25, 1973
- Comebacks
- 4
- Feb 1977 · Jul 1981 · Nov 1984 · May 1987
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
11 books · 446 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 Sunlight Dialogues | #5 | 15 | 88.5 | ||
| For Special Services | #6 | 15 | 68.4 | ||
| October Light | #6 | 10 | 57.4 | ||
| Nickel Mountain | #6 | 10 | 53.0 | ||
| License Renewed | #9 | 13 | 45.6 | ||
| Icebreaker | #9 | 11 | 38.0 | ||
| No Deals, Mr. Bond | #9 | 7 | 26.3 | ||
| Role of Honor | #9 | 8 | 23.6 | ||
| Scorpius | #11 | 6 | 18.6 | ||
| Nobody Lives Forever | #9 | 4 | 14.8 | ||
| Win, Lose or Die | #11 | 4 | 11.6 |
At their peak
1973 in books →John Gardner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1973 to February 1974. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Jacqueline Susann378
- 2Mary Stewart375
- 3Kurt Vonnegut328
- 4Frederick Forsyth320
- 5Richard Bach261
- 6Graham Greene246
- 7Gore Vidal208
- 8Paul Emil Erdman189
- 9Tom Wicker153
- 10Morris L. West143
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.