Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bette Midler
Charting Oct 23, 1983 → Feb 5, 1984 · 14 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.19%
- week of Jan 8, 1984
- Career Power
- 73
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 73
- February 1983 – February 1984
- Peak Five Years
- 73
- February 1979 – February 1984
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 14
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Nov 27, 1983
- 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 · 73 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 Saga of Baby Divine | #5 | 14 | 73.4 |
At their peak
1983 in books →Bette Midler's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1983 to February 1984. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephen King467
- 2James A. Michener450
- 3Umberto Eco373
- 4John le Carré343
- 5Joan D. Vinge265
- 6Danielle Steel212
- 7Jackie Collins178
- 8Stephen R. Donaldson169
- 9Nora Ephron158
- 10Judith Rossner139
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.