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Judith Guest

Charting Aug 29, 1976Feb 13, 1983 · 34 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Ordinary People#419129.5
Second Heaven#91540.3

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:

  1. 1Leon Uris595
  2. 2Agatha Christie417
  3. 3Gore Vidal274
  4. 4Jacqueline Susann230
  5. 5Peter Benchley211
  6. 6Harold Robbins205
  7. 7Joseph Wambaugh199
  8. 8Mary Stewart191
  9. 9Jack Higgins186
  10. 10Kurt Vonnegut154

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.