Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bette Bao Lord
Charting Nov 29, 1981 → Jun 20, 1982 · 29 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.80%
- week of Mar 21, 1982
- Career Power
- 210
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 210
- June 1981 – June 1982
- Peak Five Years
- 210
- April 1977 – June 1982
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 29
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jan 31, 1982
- 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 · 210 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Moon | #2 | 29 | 209.9 |
At their peak
1981 in books →Bette Bao Lord's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1981 to June 1982. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Clavell395
- 2John Irving368
- 3Colleen McCullough360
- 4Stephen King302
- 5Martin Cruz Smith256
- 6Andrew M. Greeley226
- 7John Jakes212
- 8Bette Bao Lord210
- 9Robert Ludlum201
- 10Lawrence Sanders171
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.