Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Alan Lightman
Charting Feb 21, 1993 → Jul 11, 1993 · 17 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.20%
- week of Apr 25, 1993
- Career Power
- 79
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 79
- July 1992 – July 1993
- Peak Five Years
- 79
- July 1988 – July 1993
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 17
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Apr 11, 1993
- 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 · 79 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Einstein's Dreams | #5 | 17 | 78.6 |
At their peak
1992 in books →Alan Lightman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1992 to July 1993. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Grisham511
- 2Robert James Waller469
- 3Stephen King366
- 4Terry McMillan234
- 5Nick Bantock229
- 6Danielle Steel165
- 7Anne Rice157
- 8Sidney Sheldon129
- 9Timothy Zahn127
- 10? by Jimmy Buffett125
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1990s.