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Sylvia Tenenbaum

Charting Feb 19, 1978Jun 18, 1978 · 13 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.47%
week of Apr 30, 1978
Career Power
44
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
44
June 1977 – June 1978
Peak Five Years
44
July 1973 – June 1978
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Mar 19, 1978
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 · 44 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Rachel, the Rabbi's Wife#81344.2

At their peak

1977 in books

Sylvia Tenenbaum's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1977 to June 1978. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Colleen McCullough659
  2. 2J.R.R. Tolkien491
  3. 3Richard Bach401
  4. 4John le Carré268
  5. 5Sidney Sheldon255
  6. 6Anais Nin183
  7. 7Paul E. Erdman181
  8. 8John Fowles174
  9. 9Robert Ludlum169
  10. 10Robert S. Elegant151

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.