Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bret Easton Ellis
Charting Sep 15, 1985 → Feb 5, 2023 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.75%
- week of Oct 6, 1985
- Career Power
- 14
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 8
- October 1984 – October 1985
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- October 1980 – October 1985
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Sep 22, 1985
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 books · 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less Than Zero | #12 | 3 | 8.3 | ||
| The Shards | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| Imperial Bedrooms | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1984 in books →Bret Easton Ellis's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1984 to October 1985. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephen King345
- 2Sidney Sheldon330
- 3Tom Clancy266
- 4Mario Puzo223
- 5Richard Bachman191
- 6John Jakes189
- 7John Irving175
- 8Danielle Steel170
- 9Frederick Forsyth168
- 10Louis L'Amour148
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.