Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
D.M. Thomas
Charting Apr 26, 1981 → Sep 13, 1981 · 19 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The White Hotel | #6 | 19 | 86.1 |
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:
- 1James A. Michener465
- 2Stephen King361
- 3Ken Follett313
- 4James Clavell267
- 5Martin Cruz Smith266
- 6Kit Williams234
- 7Sidney Sheldon194
- 8Cynthia Freeman187
- 9E. L. Doctorow166
- 10Taylor Caldwell161
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.