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A. S. Byatt portraitA. S. Byatt

Charting Dec 23, 1990Jun 16, 1991 · 18 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.79%
week of Mar 17, 1991
Career Power
73
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
73
June 1990 – June 1991
Peak Five Years
73
June 1986 – June 1991
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
18
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Feb 10, 1991
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 · 73 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.

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At their peak

1990 in books

A. S. Byatt's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1990 to June 1991. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King396
  2. 2Danielle Steel369
  3. 3Jean M. Auel315
  4. 4Scott Turow300
  5. 5Dr. Seuss252
  6. 6Sidney Sheldon217
  7. 7Anne Rice161
  8. 8Dean R. Koontz147
  9. 9John Grisham134
  10. 10David Eddings117

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.