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Charting Dec 15, 1985 → Dec 15, 1985 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.26%
week of Dec 15, 1985
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
December 1984 – December 1985
Peak Five Years
2
December 1980 – December 1985
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Dec 15, 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 · 2 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Old Gringo#1412.4

At their peak

1984 in books →

Carlos Fuentes's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1984 to December 1985. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King335
  2. 2Sidney Sheldon330
  3. 3Tom Clancy266
  4. 4Danielle Steel250
  5. 5Garrison Keillor204
  6. 6Richard Bachman191
  7. 7John Irving177
  8. 8Mario Puzo171
  9. 9Jackie Collins150
  10. 10Louis L'Amour148

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.