Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Avery Corman
Charting Nov 9, 1980 → Dec 14, 1980 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.77%
- week of Dec 14, 1980
- Career Power
- 9
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 9
- December 1979 – December 1980
- Peak Five Years
- 9
- September 1975 – December 1980
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.40%
- week of Nov 9, 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
1 book · 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Old Neighborhood | #14 | 4 | 9.3 |
At their peak
1979 in books →Avery Corman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1979 to December 1980. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Ludlum370
- 2Judith Krantz358
- 3Ken Follett300
- 4Sidney Sheldon276
- 5Stephen King270
- 6Frederick Forsyth252
- 7Belva Plain244
- 8John le Carré239
- 9Cynthia Freeman219
- 10Jeffrey Archer167
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.