Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Carl Sagan
Charting Oct 13, 1985 → Mar 23, 1986 · 24 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.93%
- week of Jan 26, 1986
- Career Power
- 196
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 196
- March 1985 – March 1986
- Peak Five Years
- 196
- April 1981 – March 1986
- Top-five weeks
- 15
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 24
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Oct 20, 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 →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 book · 196 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contact | #3 | 24 | 196.0 |
At their peak
1985 in books →Carl Sagan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1985 to March 1986. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Garrison Keillor377
- 2Stephen King293
- 3Danielle Steel289
- 4Tom Clancy262
- 5James A. Michener261
- 6Jean M. Auel241
- 7Sidney Sheldon207
- 8Carl Sagan196
- 9John Irving177
- 10Jackie Collins170
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.