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Charles Johnson

Charting Feb 3, 1991Mar 10, 1991 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.39%
week of Mar 10, 1991
Career Power
17
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
17
March 1990 – March 1991
Peak Five Years
17
March 1986 – March 1991
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Mar 10, 1991
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 · 17 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
Middle Passage#10517.0

At their peak

1990 in books

Charles Johnson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1990 to March 1991. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King478
  2. 2Dr. Seuss333
  3. 3Scott Turow315
  4. 4Jean M. Auel269
  5. 5Danielle Steel233
  6. 6Rosamunde Pilcher228
  7. 7Sidney Sheldon217
  8. 8Robert Ludlum209
  9. 9Anne Rice150
  10. 10Dean R. Koontz144

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.