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Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

D.M. Thomas

Charting Apr 26, 1981Sep 13, 1981 · 19 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.95%
week of Aug 9, 1981
Career Power
86
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
86
September 1980 – September 1981
Peak Five Years
86
June 1976 – September 1981
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Jun 21, 1981
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 · 86 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 White Hotel#61986.1

At their peak

1980 in books

D.M. Thomas's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1980 to September 1981. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James A. Michener465
  2. 2Stephen King361
  3. 3Ken Follett313
  4. 4James Clavell267
  5. 5Martin Cruz Smith266
  6. 6Kit Williams234
  7. 7Sidney Sheldon194
  8. 8Cynthia Freeman187
  9. 9E. L. Doctorow166
  10. 10Taylor Caldwell161

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.