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Lois Gould

Charting Jul 5, 1970Aug 23, 1970 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.64%
week of Aug 23, 1970
Career Power
35
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
35
August 1969 – August 1970
Peak Five Years
35
August 1965 – August 1970
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Jul 12, 1970
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 · 35 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
Such Good Friends#7735.2

At their peak

1969 in books

Lois Gould's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1969 to August 1970. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Mario Puzo534
  2. 2John Fowles491
  3. 3Erich Segal328
  4. 4Daphne Du Maurier284
  5. 5Jacqueline Susann197
  6. 6James Dickey196
  7. 7Graham Greene186
  8. 8Taylor Caldwell164
  9. 9Jimmy Breslin159
  10. 10Michael Crichton158

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.