Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Cynthia Freeman
Charting Dec 23, 1979 → May 27, 1990 · 106 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.73%
- week of Mar 15, 1981
- Career Power
- 615
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 264
- March 1980 – February 1981
- Peak Five Years
- 493
- February 1980 – January 1985
- Top-five weeks
- 35
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 106
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Dec 7, 1980
- Comebacks
- 2
- Feb 1985 · Apr 1986
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
7 books · 615 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Come Pour the Wine | #3 | 27 | 186.7 | ||
| Portraits | #4 | 27 | 162.9 | ||
| No Time for Tears | #3 | 19 | 123.8 | ||
| Illusions of Love | #6 | 15 | 59.6 | ||
| Seasons of the Heart | #5 | 9 | 46.3 | ||
| The Last Princess | #7 | 8 | 33.8 | ||
| Always and Forever | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
1980 in books →Cynthia Freeman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1980 to February 1981. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Ludlum367
- 2Sidney Sheldon327
- 3Stephen King323
- 4Ken Follett312
- 5Judith Krantz310
- 6Cynthia Freeman264
- 7James A. Michener252
- 8Belva Plain244
- 9Frederick Forsyth205
- 10Jeffrey Archer167
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.