Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard Bach
Charting Apr 30, 1972 → Feb 19, 1989 · 191 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Decade
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
38 crowns
19721989Longest reign 38 weeks (Jul 1972 – Mar 1973) · First crown Jul 1972
- Peak Power
- 14.42%
- week of Mar 18, 1973
- Career Power
- 1,569
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 38
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 714
- June 1972 – June 1973
- Peak Five Years
- 840
- September 1968 – September 1973
- Top-five weeks
- 90
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 191
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Jul 2, 1972
- Comebacks
- 2
- Aug 1977 · Dec 1988, after 10 quiet years
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
4 books · 1,569 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | #1 | 70 | 840.2 | ||
| Illusions | #2 | 80 | 507.2 | ||
| One | #3 | 16 | 126.1 | ||
| There's No Such Place as Far Away | #6 | 25 | 95.7 |
At their peak
1972 in books →Richard Bach's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1972 to June 1973. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Richard Bach714
- 2Frederick Forsyth387
- 3Herman Wouk365
- 4Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn289
- 5Dan Jenkins274
- 6Taylor Caldwell231
- 7Anya Seton193
- 8Irving Wallace179
- 9Chaim Potok174
- 10Mary Renault158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.