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Dave Wolverton

Charting Apr 24, 1994Jul 25, 1999 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.53%
week of May 8, 1994
Career Power
21
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
16
May 1993 – May 1994
Peak Five Years
16
May 1989 – May 1994
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.45%
week of Apr 24, 1994
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

2 books · 21 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 Courtship of Princess Leia#7316.0
A Very Strange Tripwith L. Ron Hubbard#725.1

At their peak

1993 in books

Dave Wolverton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1993 to May 1994. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert James Waller895
  2. 2Laura Esquivel373
  3. 3John Grisham329
  4. 4Tom Clancy266
  5. 5Danielle Steel248
  6. 6Michael Crichton190
  7. 7Stephen King178
  8. 8Anne Rice149
  9. 9Scott Turow129
  10. 10James Redfield123

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.