Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bill Adler
Charting Sep 4, 1983 → Sep 16, 1984 · 39 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.02%
- week of Mar 4, 1984
- Career Power
- 147
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 144
- September 1983 – August 1984
- Peak Five Years
- 147
- September 1979 – September 1984
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 39
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Jan 29, 1984
- 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 · 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who Killed the Robins Family?with Thomas Chastain | #1 | 35 | 142.8 | ||
| The Revenge of the Robins Familywith Thomas Chastain | #13 | 4 | 4.5 |
At their peak
1983 in books →Bill Adler's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1983 to August 1984. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James A. Michener404
- 2Stephen King394
- 3Danielle Steel382
- 4Umberto Eco324
- 5Robert Ludlum312
- 6Dr. Seuss180
- 7Leon Uris180
- 8Jackie Collins152
- 9Bill Adler144
- 10Thomas Chastain144
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.