Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Susan Howatch
Charting May 30, 1971 → Aug 19, 1984 · 72 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.12%
- week of Sep 8, 1974
- Career Power
- 428
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 161
- October 1973 – October 1974
- Peak Five Years
- 265
- October 1969 – October 1974
- Top-five weeks
- 19
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 72
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Jul 7, 1974
- Comebacks
- 3
- Jun 1974 · Aug 1980, after 5 quiet years · Jul 1984
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
5 books · 428 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cashelmara | #3 | 21 | 160.5 | ||
| Penmarric | #5 | 16 | 104.3 | ||
| Sins of the Fathers | #4 | 17 | 92.9 | ||
| The Wheel of Fortune | #8 | 12 | 49.1 | ||
| The Rich Are Different | #9 | 6 | 21.4 |
At their peak
1973 in books →Susan Howatch's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1973 to October 1974. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Gore Vidal453
- 2Peter Benchley355
- 3Richard Adams328
- 4Graham Greene283
- 5Allen Drury239
- 6Mary Stewart224
- 7Helen MacInnes209
- 8John le Carré206
- 9Irving Wallace195
- 10Susan Howatch161
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.