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Anita Brookner

Charting Mar 17, 1985May 19, 1985 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.75%
week of May 5, 1985
Career Power
26
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
26
May 1984 – May 1985
Peak Five Years
26
June 1980 – May 1985
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Apr 21, 1985
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 · 26 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
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At their peak

1984 in books

Anita Brookner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1984 to May 1985. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Helen Hooven Santmyer330
  2. 2Danielle Steel304
  3. 3Frederick Forsyth262
  4. 4Gore Vidal242
  5. 5Mario Puzo223
  6. 6Sidney Sheldon216
  7. 7Robert Ludlum194
  8. 8John Jakes189
  9. 9Jeffrey Archer156
  10. 10Stephen King142

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.