Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Kurt Vonnegut
Charting Apr 27, 1969 → Nov 9, 1997 · 153 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
15 crowns
19691997Longest reign 10 weeks (Jul–Sep 1973) · First crown Jul 1973
- Peak Power
- 12.12%
- week of Oct 21, 1973
- Career Power
- 1,201
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 15
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 328
- November 1972 – November 1973
- Peak Five Years
- 519
- March 1972 – March 1977
- Top-five weeks
- 67
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 153
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Jul 1, 1973
- Comebacks
- 4
- Jun 1973 · Nov 1976 · Oct 1979 · Dec 1985, after 6 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
9 books · 1,201 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast of Champions | #1 | 28 | 327.7 | ||
| Jailbird | #1 | 31 | 303.6 | ||
| Slapstick | #4 | 24 | 191.0 | ||
| Slaughterhouse Five | #4 | 16 | 112.0 | ||
| Galapagos | #5 | 17 | 107.9 | ||
| Deadeye Dick | #8 | 14 | 52.9 | ||
| Hocus Pocus | #4 | 7 | 43.2 | ||
| Bluebeard | #8 | 11 | 34.9 | ||
| Timequake | #7 | 5 | 27.6 |
At their peak
1972 in books →Kurt Vonnegut's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1972 to November 1973. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Frederick Forsyth495
- 2Richard Bach464
- 3Jacqueline Susann365
- 4Kurt Vonnegut328
- 5Mary Stewart235
- 6Dan Jenkins220
- 7Anya Seton197
- 8Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn183
- 9Mary Renault154
- 10Tom Wicker153
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.