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Leslie Waller

Charting Feb 29, 1976Mar 14, 1976 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.28%
week of Mar 14, 1976
Career Power
13
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
13
March 1975 – March 1976
Peak Five Years
13
March 1971 – March 1976
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Mar 7, 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

1 book · 13 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
The Swiss Account#9313.1

At their peak

1975 in books

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

  1. 1E. L. Doctorow415
  2. 2Arthur Hailey403
  3. 3Judith Rossner360
  4. 4James Michener315
  5. 5Agatha Christie311
  6. 6James Clavell235
  7. 7Irving Stone193
  8. 8Michael Crichton184
  9. 9Jack Higgins180
  10. 10John D. MacDonald169

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.