Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bruce Chatwin
Charting Aug 30, 1987 → Sep 27, 1987 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.21%
- week of Sep 27, 1987
- Career Power
- 13
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 13
- October 1986 – September 1987
- Peak Five Years
- 13
- October 1982 – September 1987
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Sep 20, 1987
- 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 · 13 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 Songlines | #11 | 5 | 13.4 |
At their peak
1986 in books →Bruce Chatwin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1986 to September 1987. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephen King714
- 2Tom Clancy502
- 3Danielle Steel356
- 4Sidney Sheldon319
- 5Pat Conroy240
- 6Louis L'Amour225
- 7James Clavell202
- 8Scott Turow175
- 9Jackie Collins139
- 10Stephen Coonts138
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.