Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Alice Walker
Charting May 8, 1983 → Oct 25, 1998 · 41 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.32%
- week of Aug 30, 1992
- Career Power
- 220
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 114
- October 1988 – September 1989
- Peak Five Years
- 203
- October 1987 – September 1992
- Top-five weeks
- 9
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 41
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Jun 4, 1989
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 1992
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
4 books · 220 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 Temple of My Familiar | #3 | 21 | 114.4 | ||
| Possessing the Secret of Joy | #4 | 15 | 88.2 | ||
| By the Light of My Father's Smile | #9 | 2 | 9.0 | ||
| The Color Purple | #10 | 3 | 8.3 |
At their peak
1988 in books →Alice Walker's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1988 to September 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy368
- 2Sidney Sheldon244
- 3Salman Rushdie224
- 4Amy Tan214
- 5John le Carré211
- 6Anne Tyler200
- 7Danielle Steel195
- 8Mary Higgins Clark185
- 9Anne Rice161
- 10Frederick Forsyth158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.