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Dale Brown

Charting Jul 2, 1989Sep 23, 2012 · 35 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Day of the Cheetah#8933.3
Night of the Hawk#7523.5
Hammerheads#10619.9
Sky Masters#10618.5
Fatal Terrain#14510.7
Plan of Attack#1113.7
Warrior Class#1113.6
Storming Heaven#1312.8
Tiger's Claw#1611.8

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:

  1. 1Tom Clancy368
  2. 2Sidney Sheldon244
  3. 3Salman Rushdie224
  4. 4Anne Tyler209
  5. 5Danielle Steel197
  6. 6Amy Tan194
  7. 7John le Carré193
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark179
  9. 9Anne Rice161
  10. 10Frederick Forsyth158

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.