Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mario Puzo
Charting Mar 30, 1969 → Sep 10, 2000 · 137 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
29 crowns
19692000Longest reign 20 weeks (Sep 1969 – Feb 1970) · First crown Sep 1969
- Peak Power
- 14.20%
- week of Feb 1, 1970
- Career Power
- 1,364
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 29
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 673
- April 1969 – April 1970
- Peak Five Years
- 779
- July 1965 – July 1970
- Top-five weeks
- 99
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 137
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Sep 21, 1969
- Comebacks
- 4
- Dec 1978, after 8 quiet years · Dec 1984, after 6 quiet years · Sep 1996, after 11 quiet years · Sep 2000
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
6 books · 1,364 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 Godfather | #1 | 67 | 779.3 | ||
| The Sicilian | #1 | 23 | 223.5 | ||
| Fools Die | #3 | 19 | 152.6 | ||
| The Last Don | #3 | 11 | 96.3 | ||
| Omerta | #2 | 8 | 69.2 | ||
| The Fourth K | #4 | 9 | 43.2 |
At their peak
1969 in books →Mario Puzo's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1969 to April 1970. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mario Puzo673
- 2Jacqueline Susann384
- 3Philip Roth350
- 4Daphne Du Maurier275
- 5John Fowles272
- 6Michael Crichton234
- 7Vladimir Nabokov160
- 8Harold Robbins150
- 9Gladys Rockmore Davis133
- 10Irving Wallace130
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.