Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Leslie Waller
Charting Feb 29, 1976 → Mar 14, 1976 · 3 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Swiss Account | #9 | 3 | 13.1 |
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:
- 1E. L. Doctorow415
- 2Arthur Hailey403
- 3Judith Rossner360
- 4James Michener315
- 5Agatha Christie311
- 6James Clavell235
- 7Irving Stone193
- 8Michael Crichton184
- 9Jack Higgins180
- 10John D. MacDonald169
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.