Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Pierre Salinger
Charting Jul 11, 1971 → Sep 26, 1971 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.02%
- week of Sep 26, 1971
- Career Power
- 57
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 57
- October 1970 – September 1971
- Peak Five Years
- 57
- October 1966 – September 1971
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Aug 1, 1971
- 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 · 57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Instructions of My Government | #5 | 9 | 56.6 |
At their peak
1970 in books →Pierre Salinger's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1970 to September 1971. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris434
- 2Erich Segal388
- 3Irving Stone333
- 4Joseph Wambaugh261
- 5Ernest Hemingway260
- 6Irwin Shaw252
- 7Mary Stewart211
- 8William Peter Blatty196
- 9Agatha Christie186
- 10Victoria Holt175
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.