Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
John Godey
Charting Mar 18, 1973 → Jun 24, 1973 · 15 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.36%
- week of Jun 10, 1973
- Career Power
- 116
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 116
- July 1972 – June 1973
- Peak Five Years
- 116
- July 1968 – June 1973
- Top-five weeks
- 8
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 15
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Apr 1, 1973
- 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 · 116 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 Taking of Pelham One Two Three | #4 | 15 | 115.8 |
At their peak
1972 in books →John Godey's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1972 to June 1973. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Richard Bach710
- 2Frederick Forsyth421
- 3Herman Wouk321
- 4Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn289
- 5Dan Jenkins274
- 6Taylor Caldwell201
- 7Anya Seton197
- 8Mary Renault158
- 9Jacqueline Susann152
- 10Chaim Potok149
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.