Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Anne Tyler
Charting Apr 11, 1982 → Mar 16, 2025 · 178 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.66%
- week of Nov 13, 1988
- Career Power
- 1,010
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 209
- June 1988 – May 1989
- Peak Five Years
- 355
- June 1984 – May 1989
- Top-five weeks
- 48
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 178
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Oct 2, 1988
- Comebacks
- 9
- Sep 1985 · Oct 1988 · Sep 1991 · May 1995 · Jun 2001, after 6 quiet years · Feb 2004 · Jun 2006 · Mar 2015, after 9 quiet years · Aug 2018
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
17 books · 1,010 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breathing Lessons | #2 | 33 | 208.8 | ||
| The Accidental Tourist | #4 | 29 | 146.1 | ||
| Ladder of Years | #3 | 16 | 97.2 | ||
| A Spool of Blue Thread | #3 | 13 | 87.1 | ||
| Back When We Were Grownups | #3 | 13 | 79.4 | ||
| Saint Maybe | #3 | 9 | 69.9 | ||
| The Amateur Marriage | #4 | 12 | 69.8 | ||
| Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | #8 | 17 | 63.6 | ||
| Digging to America | #4 | 6 | 39.9 | ||
| Clock Dance | #3 | 5 | 34.0 | ||
| A Patchwork Planet | #7 | 6 | 27.2 | ||
| French Braid | #4 | 4 | 22.7 | ||
| Noah’S Compass | #3 | 4 | 20.6 | ||
| Redhead by the Side of the Road | #4 | 4 | 19.9 | ||
| The Beginner's Goodbye | #8 | 3 | 11.0 | ||
| Three Days in June | #9 | 3 | 10.9 | ||
| Vinegar Girl | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1988 in books →Anne Tyler's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1988 to May 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy424
- 2Danielle Steel332
- 3James A. Michener298
- 4Sidney Sheldon244
- 5Anne Tyler209
- 6Tom Wolfe185
- 7Gabriel Garcia Marquez178
- 8Salman Rushdie177
- 9Anne Rice161
- 10Judith Krantz154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.