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Leon Uris

Charting May 17, 1953 → Jun 20, 1999 · 405 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year: 1959
1971
1976

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
66 crowns
19531999
Longest reign 21 weeks (Jun–Oct 1976) · First crown May 1959

Peak Power: 14.30%; week of Apr 3, 1977
Career Power: 3,838; share-weeks
Crowns: 66; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 725; April 1976 – April 1977
Peak Five Years: 1,052; January 1957 – January 1962
Top-five weeks: 260; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 405; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of May 17, 1959
Comebacks: 7; Dec 1958, after 5 quiet years · Jul 1961 · Jul 1964 · Nov 1967 · Jan 1971 · May 1976, after 5 quiet years · May 1984, after 6 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

11 books · 3,838 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
Trinity	#1June 1976	77	March 1976 – September 1977	917.5	917.5
Exodus	#1May 1959	78	October 1958 – April 1960	800.6	800.6
Topaz	#1October 1967	52	October 1967 – September 1968	508.1	508.1
QB VII	#1February 1971	39	December 1970 – August 1971	434.4	434.4
Battle Cry	#2June 1953	51	May 1953 – May 1954	384.6	384.6
Armegeddon	#2July 1964	34	June 1964 – February 1965	283.2	283.2
Mila 18	#2August 1961	33	June 1961 – January 1962	251.0	251.0
The Haj	#2April 1984	24	April 1984 – September 1984	190.4	190.4
Mitla Pass	#6November 1988	11	November 1988 – January 1989	53.0	53.0
Redemption	#12July 1995	4	July 1995 – July 1995	11.3	11.1
A God in Ruins	#14June 1999	2	June 1999 – June 1999	4.3	4.2

At their peak

1976 in books →

Leon Uris's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1976 to April 1977. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.