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Craig Thomas

Charting May 3, 1987Jun 7, 1987 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.77%
week of Jun 7, 1987
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
9
June 1986 – June 1987
Peak Five Years
9
June 1982 – June 1987
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.23%
week of Jun 7, 1987
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 · 9 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
Winter Hawk#1249.3

At their peak

1986 in books

Craig Thomas's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1986 to June 1987. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King550
  2. 2Tom Clancy480
  3. 3Danielle Steel412
  4. 4Louis L'Amour258
  5. 5Sidney Sheldon234
  6. 6Pat Conroy207
  7. 7James Clavell202
  8. 8Jeffrey Archer155
  9. 9Jackie Collins139
  10. 10Stephen Coonts138

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.