Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Nicholas Meyer
Charting Sep 15, 1974 → Aug 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | #2 | 40 | 368.6 | ||
| The West End Horror | #7 | 11 | 54.6 |
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:
- 1James Michener575
- 2John le Carré393
- 3Nicholas Meyer369
- 4Joseph Heller299
- 5Frederick Forsyth292
- 6Richard Adams264
- 7Peter Benchley252
- 8Harold Robbins214
- 9Thomas Tryon175
- 10Arthur Hailey173
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.