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Victoria Holt

Charting Sep 25, 1960 → Aug 21, 1988 · 149 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power: 7.13%; week of Nov 7, 1971
Career Power: 864; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 179; November 1970 – November 1971
Peak Five Years: 570; November 1969 – October 1974
Top-five weeks: 32; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 149; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 11.01%; week of Sep 5, 1971
Comebacks: 3; Feb 1965 · Sep 1967 · Aug 1970

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

15 books · 864 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 Shadow of the Lynx	#3September 1971	20	July 1971 – December 1971	155.8	155.8
The Secret Woman	#4September 1970	24	July 1970 – January 1971	152.7	152.7
Mistress of Mellyn	#5November 1960	23	September 1960 – February 1961	117.4	117.4
On the Night of the Seventh Moon	#4October 1972	17	October 1972 – January 1973	117.0	117.0
The House of a Thousand Lanterns	#5September 1974	10	August 1974 – October 1974	68.5	68.5
The Legend of the Seventh Virgin	#4March 1965	11	February 1965 – April 1965	67.3	67.3
Curse of the Kings	#7September 1973	12	August 1973 – November 1973	61.8	61.8
The Queen's Confession	#8September 1968	7	August 1968 – October 1968	33.7	33.7
The King of the Castle	#8August 1967	6	July 1967 – September 1967	27.0	27.0
Kirkland Revels	#12February 1962	9	February 1962 – April 1962	22.6	22.6
Menfreya in the Morning	#8May 1966	3	May 1966 – June 1966	15.8	15.8
The Shivering Sands	#9December 1969	3	December 1969 – January 1970	14.4	14.4
Bride of Pendorric	#10September 1963	1	September 1963	4.2	4.2
The India Fan	#15August 1988	2	August 1988 – August 1988	4.2	4.2
Devil on Horseback	#15October 1977	1	October 1977	2.1	2.1

At their peak

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Victoria Holt's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1970 to November 1971. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.