Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard Adams
Charting Apr 14, 1974 → Jun 18, 1978 · 64 weeks with chart power
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Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
13 crowns
19741978Longest reign 13 weeks (May–Jul 1974) · First crown May 1974
- Peak Power
- 12.13%
- week of Aug 11, 1974
- Career Power
- 575
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 13
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 358
- February 1974 – January 1975
- Peak Five Years
- 575
- July 1973 – June 1978
- Top-five weeks
- 37
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 64
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of May 5, 1974
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 books · 575 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watership Down | #1 | 33 | 357.8 | ||
| Shardik | #2 | 19 | 161.1 | ||
| The Plague Dogs | #7 | 12 | 56.0 |
At their peak
1974 in books →Richard Adams's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1974 to January 1975. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Peter Benchley429
- 2Richard Adams358
- 3John le Carré353
- 4Gore Vidal303
- 5James Michener287
- 6Frederick Forsyth264
- 7Helen MacInnes209
- 8Irving Wallace195
- 9Nicholas Meyer164
- 10Joseph Heller163
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.