Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Robert Coover
Charting Oct 2, 1977 → Oct 2, 1977 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.23%
- week of Oct 2, 1977
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- October 1976 – October 1977
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- October 1972 – October 1977
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Oct 2, 1977
- 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 · 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Public Burning | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1976 in books →Robert Coover's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1976 to October 1977. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris542
- 2Paul E. Erdman427
- 3Erich Segal297
- 4Agatha Christie286
- 5Colleen McCullough263
- 6John Cheever253
- 7Jack Higgins211
- 8Clive Cussler205
- 9Kurt Vonnegut179
- 10John D. MacDonald163
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.