Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ruth Beebe Hill
Charting Mar 4, 1979 → Sep 23, 1979 · 30 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.75%
- week of Jun 17, 1979
- Career Power
- 162
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 162
- July 1978 – September 1979
- Peak Five Years
- 162
- July 1974 – September 1979
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 30
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of May 20, 1979
- 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 · 162 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanta Yo | #3 | 30 | 162.3 |
At their peak
1978 in books →Ruth Beebe Hill's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1978 to September 1979. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James A. Michener471
- 2Herman Wouk470
- 3Robert Ludlum409
- 4Joseph Heller207
- 5William Styron188
- 6Arthur Hailey177
- 7General Sir John Hackett171
- 8Richard Bach163
- 9Ruth Beebe Hill162
- 10Trevanian160
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.