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Lothar-Guenther Buchheim

Charting Jul 27, 1975Aug 24, 1975 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.22%
week of Aug 24, 1975
Career Power
13
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
13
September 1974 – August 1975
Peak Five Years
13
September 1970 – August 1975
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Aug 24, 1975
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 Boat#9313.1

At their peak

1974 in books

Lothar-Guenther Buchheim's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1974 to August 1975. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Michener658
  2. 2Nicholas Meyer369
  3. 3Joseph Heller299
  4. 4John le Carré293
  5. 5Arthur Hailey290
  6. 6Richard Adams233
  7. 7Frederick Forsyth223
  8. 8Harold Robbins214
  9. 9Thomas Tryon175
  10. 10John D. MacDonald169

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.