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Ruth Beebe Hill

Charting Mar 4, 1979Sep 23, 1979 · 30 weeks with chart power

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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.

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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:

  1. 1James A. Michener471
  2. 2Herman Wouk470
  3. 3Robert Ludlum409
  4. 4Joseph Heller207
  5. 5William Styron188
  6. 6Arthur Hailey177
  7. 7General Sir John Hackett171
  8. 8Richard Bach163
  9. 9Ruth Beebe Hill162
  10. 10Trevanian160

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.