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Chris Van Allsburg portraitChris Van Allsburg

Charting Dec 22, 1985Jan 12, 1992 · 34 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.01%
week of Jan 15, 1989
Career Power
248
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
64
January 1988 – January 1989
Peak Five Years
214
January 1987 – January 1992
Top-five weeks
15
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
34
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.15%
week of Dec 30, 1990
Comebacks
1
Dec 1987

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 · 248 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 Polar Express#334247.8

At their peak

1988 in books

Chris Van Allsburg's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1988 to January 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Wolfe423
  2. 2Tom Clancy390
  3. 3Danielle Steel296
  4. 4James A. Michener284
  5. 5Robert Ludlum270
  6. 6Gabriel Garcia Marquez221
  7. 7Rosamunde Pilcher196
  8. 8Judith Krantz154
  9. 9Anne Rice141
  10. 10Stephen King133

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.