Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Joseph Heller
Charting Oct 27, 1974 → Jan 27, 1985 · 70 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 crowns
19741985Longest reign 2 weeks (Apr 1979) · First crown Feb 1975
- Peak Power
- 10.72%
- week of Mar 16, 1975
- Career Power
- 604
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 3
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 299
- May 1974 – May 1975
- Peak Five Years
- 506
- June 1974 – September 1979
- Top-five weeks
- 41
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 70
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Feb 9, 1975
- Comebacks
- 2
- Apr 1979 · Oct 1984, after 5 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 books · 604 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Something Happened | #1 | 29 | 298.7 | ||
| Good as Gold | #1 | 25 | 207.1 | ||
| God Knows | #2 | 16 | 98.5 |
At their peak
1974 in books →Joseph Heller's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1974 to May 1975. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Michener499
- 2John le Carré399
- 3Nicholas Meyer335
- 4Peter Benchley326
- 5Joseph Heller299
- 6Richard Adams297
- 7Frederick Forsyth292
- 8Harold Robbins214
- 9Thomas Tryon170
- 10Irving Wallace166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.