Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Sterling Hayden
Charting Feb 6, 1977 → Apr 17, 1977 · 10 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.80%
- week of Apr 3, 1977
- Career Power
- 55
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 55
- April 1976 – April 1977
- Peak Five Years
- 55
- April 1972 – April 1977
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 10
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Mar 13, 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 · 55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voyage | #5 | 10 | 55.0 |
At their peak
1976 in books →Sterling Hayden's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1976 to April 1977. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris725
- 2Agatha Christie327
- 3Jacqueline Susann230
- 4Gore Vidal215
- 5Jack Higgins215
- 6Peter Benchley211
- 7Harold Robbins205
- 8Kurt Vonnegut191
- 9Mary Stewart191
- 10Clive Cussler186
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.