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Arnaud de Borchgrave

Charting Jun 15, 1980Dec 18, 1983 · 33 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
3.86%
week of Sep 21, 1980
Career Power
99
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
78
November 1979 – November 1980
Peak Five Years
99
December 1978 – December 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
33
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Aug 17, 1980
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 · 99 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 Spikewith Robert Moss#22178.4
Monimbowith Robert Moss#91220.9

At their peak

1979 in books

Arnaud de Borchgrave's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1979 to November 1980. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Ludlum390
  2. 2Judith Krantz358
  3. 3Ken Follett296
  4. 4Stephen King254
  5. 5Frederick Forsyth252
  6. 6Belva Plain240
  7. 7John le Carré239
  8. 8Sidney Sheldon234
  9. 9Kurt Vonnegut218
  10. 10Howard Fast175

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.