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Allan Folsom

Charting Apr 24, 1994Oct 25, 1998 · 15 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.46%
week of Jun 12, 1994
Career Power
84
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
76
August 1993 – August 1994
Peak Five Years
84
November 1993 – October 1998
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.23%
week of Apr 24, 1994
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

2 books · 84 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Day After Tomorrow#31276.4
Day of Confession#1237.3

At their peak

1993 in books

Allan Folsom's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1993 to August 1994. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert James Waller811
  2. 2John Grisham307
  3. 3James Redfield303
  4. 4Danielle Steel292
  5. 5Laura Esquivel279
  6. 6Tom Clancy266
  7. 7Michael Crichton207
  8. 8Stephen King178
  9. 9Anne Rice149
  10. 10Mary Higgins Clark131

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.