Skip to content

Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

R.F. Delderfield

Charting Sep 13, 1970Dec 17, 1972 · 48 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
6.18%
week of Dec 13, 1970
Career Power
296
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
158
March 1970 – March 1971
Peak Five Years
296
December 1967 – December 1972
Top-five weeks
9
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
48
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Oct 18, 1970
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

3 books · 296 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
God Is an Englishman#424158.2
Theirs Was the Kingdom#51381.5
To Serve Them All My Days#71156.7

At their peak

1970 in books

R.F. Delderfield's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1970 to March 1971. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Erich Segal728
  2. 2John Fowles369
  3. 3Mary Stewart349
  4. 4Taylor Caldwell310
  5. 5Ernest Hemingway255
  6. 6James Dickey233
  7. 7Irwin Shaw195
  8. 8Gwen Bristow189
  9. 9Leon Uris185
  10. 10Elizabeth Goudge180

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.