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Judith Rossner portraitJudith Rossner

Charting Jun 22, 1975 → Jan 22, 1984 · 57 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    19751984

    First crown Aug 1975

Peak Power
11.35%
week of Nov 23, 1975
Career Power
503
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
360
March 1975 – February 1976
Peak Five Years
364
November 1972 – November 1977
Top-five weeks
36
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
57
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Aug 3, 1975
Comebacks
1
Sep 1983, after 7 quiet years

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

3 books · 503 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
Looking for Mr. Goodbar#136359.6
August#319139.1
Attachments#1424.5

At their peak

1975 in books →

Judith Rossner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1975 to February 1976. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Arthur Hailey403
  2. 2E. L. Doctorow393
  3. 3Judith Rossner360
  4. 4James Michener344
  5. 5Agatha Christie282
  6. 6James Clavell235
  7. 7Michael Crichton184
  8. 8Irving Stone179
  9. 9Jack Higgins171
  10. 10John D. MacDonald169

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.