Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ross MacDonald
Charting Jul 6, 1969 → Jul 8, 1973 · 37 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.17%
- week of Jun 13, 1971
- Career Power
- 233
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 134
- July 1970 – July 1971
- Peak Five Years
- 233
- July 1968 – July 1973
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 37
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Apr 18, 1971
- Comebacks
- 1
- Mar 1971
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
3 books · 233 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 Underground Man | #4 | 17 | 133.8 | ||
| The Goodbye Look | #7 | 14 | 73.3 | ||
| Sleeping Beauty | #9 | 6 | 25.7 |
At their peak
1970 in books →Ross MacDonald's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1970 to July 1971. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Erich Segal562
- 2Leon Uris379
- 3Mary Stewart343
- 4Ernest Hemingway260
- 5Irwin Shaw252
- 6Taylor Caldwell226
- 7Irving Stone204
- 8Joseph Wambaugh198
- 9Agatha Christie186
- 10Elizabeth Goudge180
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.