Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Peter Benchley
Charting Mar 10, 1974 → Sep 8, 1991 · 100 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
- Peak Power
- 11.11%
- week of Jul 28, 1974
- Career Power
- 823
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 433
- February 1974 – February 1975
- Peak Five Years
- 648
- March 1974 – June 1979
- Top-five weeks
- 57
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 100
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Mar 31, 1974
- Comebacks
- 3
- Jun 1976 · Jul 1979 · Aug 1991, after 12 quiet years
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
5 books · 823 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaws | #2 | 45 | 433.1 | ||
| The Deep | #2 | 24 | 211.2 | ||
| The Island | #4 | 18 | 107.4 | ||
| Beast | #4 | 11 | 67.4 | ||
| Q Clearance | #15 | 2 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1974 in books →Peter Benchley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1974 to February 1975. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Peter Benchley433
- 2John le Carré358
- 3Richard Adams358
- 4James Michener301
- 5Gore Vidal289
- 6Frederick Forsyth269
- 7Helen MacInnes209
- 8Irving Wallace195
- 9Nicholas Meyer176
- 10Joseph Heller174
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.