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Marjorie Holmes

Charting Jan 7, 1973Jan 28, 1973 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.78%
week of Jan 28, 1973
Career Power
8
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
8
February 1972 – January 1973
Peak Five Years
8
February 1968 – January 1973
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Jan 7, 1973
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 · 8 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
Two from Galilee#1028.3

At their peak

1972 in books

Marjorie Holmes's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1972 to January 1973. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Herman Wouk610
  2. 2Richard Bach521
  3. 3Irving Wallace308
  4. 4Taylor Caldwell293
  5. 5Frederick Forsyth284
  6. 6Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn214
  7. 7Chaim Potok208
  8. 8William Peter Blatty195
  9. 9Arthur Hailey162
  10. 10Dan Jenkins154

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.