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Judith Krantz

Charting Mar 12, 1978May 12, 1996 · 168 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    12 crowns

    19781996

    Longest reign 5 weeks (Feb–Mar 1980) · First crown Jun 1978

Peak Power
11.62%
week of Jun 22, 1980
Career Power
1,413
share-weeks
Crowns
12
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
358
October 1979 – October 1980
Peak Five Years
823
January 1978 – April 1983
Top-five weeks
97
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
168
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jun 18, 1978
Comebacks
6
Feb 1980 · Dec 1982 · May 1986 · Sep 1988 · Jan 1991 · Jul 1992

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

9 books · 1,413 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
Princess Daisy#136358.4
Scruples#129251.8
Mistral's Daughter#123212.3
I'll Take Manhattan#124196.4
Till We Meet Again#220154.3
Dazzle#31494.5
Scruples Two#2977.4
Lovers#6736.5
Spring Collection#4631.1

At their peak

1979 in books

Judith Krantz's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1979 to October 1980. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Ludlum406
  2. 2Judith Krantz358
  3. 3Ken Follett277
  4. 4Kurt Vonnegut271
  5. 5Frederick Forsyth252
  6. 6Stephen King250
  7. 7John le Carré239
  8. 8Belva Plain227
  9. 9Howard Fast215
  10. 10Sidney Sheldon199

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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