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Lisa Alther

Charting Apr 18, 1976May 30, 1976 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.75%
week of May 30, 1976
Career Power
34
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
34
June 1975 – May 1976
Peak Five Years
34
June 1971 – May 1976
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of May 16, 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 · 34 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
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At their peak

1975 in books

Lisa Alther's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1975 to May 1976. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1E. L. Doctorow456
  2. 2Agatha Christie400
  3. 3Judith Rossner360
  4. 4Joseph Wambaugh277
  5. 5Arthur Hailey274
  6. 6James Clavell235
  7. 7Irving Stone208
  8. 8Michael Crichton184
  9. 9Jack Higgins180
  10. 10James Michener165

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.