Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Marilyn French
Charting Dec 4, 1977 → Jul 20, 1980 · 51 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.35%
- week of Aug 6, 1978
- Career Power
- 254
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 168
- August 1977 – August 1978
- Peak Five Years
- 254
- May 1975 – July 1980
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 51
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Mar 19, 1978
- Comebacks
- 1
- Apr 1980
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
2 books · 254 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 Women's Room | #4 | 35 | 168.5 | ||
| The Bleeding Heart | #4 | 16 | 85.8 |
At their peak
1977 in books →Marilyn French's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1977 to August 1978. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Colleen McCullough564
- 2J.R.R. Tolkien524
- 3Richard Bach378
- 4Sidney Sheldon336
- 5John le Carré268
- 6Judith Krantz234
- 7Robert Ludlum200
- 8Anais Nin179
- 9John Fowles174
- 10Marilyn French168
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.