Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Lisa Alther
Charting Apr 18, 1976 → May 30, 1976 · 7 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinflicks | #8 | 7 | 34.4 |
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:
- 1E. L. Doctorow456
- 2Agatha Christie400
- 3Judith Rossner360
- 4Joseph Wambaugh277
- 5Arthur Hailey274
- 6James Clavell235
- 7Irving Stone208
- 8Michael Crichton184
- 9Jack Higgins180
- 10James Michener165
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.