Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard Condon
Charting Jul 26, 1959 → Sep 8, 1974 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.82%
- week of Sep 8, 1974
- Career Power
- 41
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 39
- September 1973 – September 1974
- Peak Five Years
- 39
- September 1969 – September 1974
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Aug 25, 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 →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 books · 41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Kills | #7 | 8 | 38.7 | ||
| The Manchurian Candidate | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1973 in books →Richard Condon's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1973 to September 1974. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Gore Vidal453
- 2Peter Benchley306
- 3Mary Stewart297
- 4Graham Greene296
- 5Richard Adams287
- 6Allen Drury239
- 7Helen MacInnes209
- 8Irving Wallace182
- 9Thornton Wilder158
- 10Lawrence Sanders156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.