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Joseph Wambaugh portraitJoseph Wambaugh

Charting Feb 7, 1971 → Apr 20, 2008 · 167 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
10.44%
week of Apr 25, 1976
Career Power
1,147
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
281
June 1975 – June 1976
Peak Five Years
490
April 1971 – March 1976
Top-five weeks
63
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
167
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Jun 27, 1971
Comebacks
5
Dec 1975 · Feb 1978 · Aug 1981 · Apr 1983 · Nov 1985

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

12 books · 1,147 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Choirboys#228281.3
The New Centurions#232260.7
The Glitter Dome#322140.8
The Black Marble#318112.9
The Blue Knight#61788.6
The Secrets of Harry Bright#51788.3
The Delta Star#31380.8
The Golden Orange#51152.1
Fugitive Nights#7524.5
Hollywood Crows#5212.0
Floaters#1312.8
Finnegan's Week#1412.5

At their peak

1975 in books →

Joseph Wambaugh's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1975 to June 1976. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1E. L. Doctorow456
  2. 2Agatha Christie400
  3. 3Judith Rossner360
  4. 4Joseph Wambaugh281
  5. 5Arthur Hailey259
  6. 6James Clavell235
  7. 7Irving Stone208
  8. 8Michael Crichton184
  9. 9Jack Higgins180
  10. 10Saul Bellow163

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.