Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
William F. Buckley Jr
Charting Feb 8, 1976 → Mar 13, 1988 · 86 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.82%
- week of Apr 25, 1976
- Career Power
- 536
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 122
- June 1975 – May 1976
- Peak Five Years
- 276
- March 1975 – June 1980
- Top-five weeks
- 26
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 86
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Feb 21, 1982
- Comebacks
- 4
- Jun 1978 · Apr 1980 · Feb 1982 · Feb 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
8 books · 536 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saving the Queen | #3 | 15 | 121.7 | ||
| Marco Polo, If You Can | #2 | 14 | 115.2 | ||
| Stained Glass | #4 | 11 | 84.4 | ||
| Who's on First | #6 | 13 | 70.2 | ||
| The Story of Henri Tod | #6 | 10 | 55.7 | ||
| See You Later Alligator | #6 | 11 | 48.6 | ||
| Mongoose R.I.P. | #9 | 8 | 27.2 | ||
| High Jinx | #10 | 4 | 13.1 |
At their peak
1975 in books →William F. Buckley Jr's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1975 to May 1976. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1E. L. Doctorow456
- 2Agatha Christie400
- 3Judith Rossner360
- 4Arthur Hailey288
- 5Joseph Wambaugh271
- 6James Clavell235
- 7Irving Stone208
- 8Michael Crichton184
- 9Jack Higgins180
- 10James Michener177
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.