Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Dale Brown
Charting Jul 2, 1989 → Sep 23, 2012 · 35 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.10%
- week of Aug 6, 1989
- Career Power
- 118
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 33
- September 1988 – September 1989
- Peak Five Years
- 95
- October 1987 – September 1992
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 35
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Sep 6, 1992
- 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
9 books · 118 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day of the Cheetah | #8 | 9 | 33.3 | ||
| Night of the Hawk | #7 | 5 | 23.5 | ||
| Hammerheads | #10 | 6 | 19.9 | ||
| Sky Masters | #10 | 6 | 18.5 | ||
| Fatal Terrain | #14 | 5 | 10.7 | ||
| Plan of Attack | #11 | 1 | 3.7 | ||
| Warrior Class | #11 | 1 | 3.6 | ||
| Storming Heaven | #13 | 1 | 2.8 | ||
| Tiger's Claw | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1988 in books →Dale Brown's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1988 to September 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy368
- 2Sidney Sheldon244
- 3Salman Rushdie224
- 4Anne Tyler209
- 5Danielle Steel197
- 6Amy Tan194
- 7John le Carré193
- 8Mary Higgins Clark179
- 9Anne Rice161
- 10Frederick Forsyth158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.