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Anton Myrer

Charting May 14, 1978May 16, 1982 · 25 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.85%
week of Apr 18, 1982
Career Power
147
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
100
May 1981 – May 1982
Peak Five Years
147
February 1977 – May 1982
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Mar 21, 1982
Comebacks
1
Feb 1982

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 · 147 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
A Green Desire#315100.1
The Last Convertible#71046.6

At their peak

1981 in books

Anton Myrer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1981 to May 1982. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Clavell468
  2. 2John Irving353
  3. 3Colleen McCullough351
  4. 4Martin Cruz Smith319
  5. 5Stephen King302
  6. 6Bette Bao Lord196
  7. 7Andrew M. Greeley194
  8. 8Lawrence Sanders171
  9. 9John Jakes170
  10. 10Harold Robbins143

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.