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Clive Barker portraitClive Barker

Charting May 31, 1987Jun 7, 2015 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.77%
week of Mar 11, 1990
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
9
March 1989 – March 1990
Peak Five Years
19
November 1986 – October 1991
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Jun 7, 2015
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

4 books · 24 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 Great and Secret Show#1448.7
Imajica#1436.6
The Scarlet Gospels#914.8
The Damnation Game#1523.9

At their peak

1989 in books

Clive Barker's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1989 to March 1990. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Clancy344
  2. 2Danielle Steel332
  3. 3Amy Tan255
  4. 4John le Carré235
  5. 5Salman Rushdie199
  6. 6Stephen King188
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark187
  8. 8Frederick Forsyth158
  9. 9Martin Cruz Smith150
  10. 10James A. Michener147

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.