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Nicholas Meyer portraitNicholas Meyer

Charting Sep 15, 1974Aug 22, 1976 · 51 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
11.30%
week of Apr 6, 1975
Career Power
423
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
369
June 1974 – June 1975
Peak Five Years
423
September 1971 – August 1976
Top-five weeks
29
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
51
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Jan 19, 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

2 books · 423 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 Seven-Per-Cent Solution#240368.6
The West End Horror#71154.6

At their peak

1974 in books

Nicholas Meyer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1974 to June 1975. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Michener575
  2. 2John le Carré393
  3. 3Nicholas Meyer369
  4. 4Joseph Heller299
  5. 5Frederick Forsyth292
  6. 6Richard Adams264
  7. 7Peter Benchley252
  8. 8Harold Robbins214
  9. 9Thomas Tryon175
  10. 10Arthur Hailey173

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.