Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Sylvia Plath
Charting May 9, 1971 → Oct 17, 1971 · 24 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.58%
- week of Aug 29, 1971
- Career Power
- 165
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 165
- October 1970 – October 1971
- Peak Five Years
- 165
- October 1966 – October 1971
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 24
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Jun 20, 1971
- 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 · 165 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 Bell Jar | #4 | 24 | 164.8 |
At their peak
1970 in books →Sylvia Plath's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1970 to October 1971. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris434
- 2Irving Stone347
- 3Erich Segal345
- 4Joseph Wambaugh261
- 5Ernest Hemingway253
- 6Irwin Shaw241
- 7William Peter Blatty238
- 8Agatha Christie186
- 9Thomas Tryon183
- 10Victoria Holt174
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.