Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Judith Guest
Charting Aug 29, 1976 → Feb 13, 1983 · 34 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.91%
- week of Nov 28, 1976
- Career Power
- 170
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 129
- February 1976 – January 1977
- Peak Five Years
- 129
- February 1972 – January 1977
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 34
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Sep 26, 1976
- 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
2 books · 170 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary People | #4 | 19 | 129.5 | ||
| Second Heaven | #9 | 15 | 40.3 |
At their peak
1976 in books →Judith Guest's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1976 to January 1977. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris595
- 2Agatha Christie417
- 3Gore Vidal274
- 4Jacqueline Susann230
- 5Peter Benchley211
- 6Harold Robbins205
- 7Joseph Wambaugh199
- 8Mary Stewart191
- 9Jack Higgins186
- 10Kurt Vonnegut154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.