Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Rona Jaffe
Charting Sep 21, 1958 → Oct 13, 1985 · 50 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.43%
- week of Sep 30, 1979
- Career Power
- 239
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 112
- November 1978 – November 1979
- Peak Five Years
- 115
- October 1955 – October 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 50
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Sep 9, 1979
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 1979, after 20 quiet years
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
4 books · 239 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class Reunion | #4 | 21 | 112.1 | ||
| The Best of Everything | #6 | 20 | 103.5 | ||
| Away from Home | #13 | 5 | 11.8 | ||
| After the Reunion | #11 | 4 | 11.6 |
At their peak
1978 in books →Rona Jaffe's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1978 to November 1979. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk483
- 2James A. Michener427
- 3Robert Ludlum379
- 4William Styron240
- 5Joseph Heller207
- 6General Sir John Hackett197
- 7Howard Fast186
- 8Arthur Hailey177
- 9Trevanian176
- 10Ruth Beebe Hill162
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.