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David Eddings

Charting May 3, 1987 → Nov 16, 1997 · 69 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 crowns
19871997
Longest reign 3 weeks (Apr–May 1991) · First crown Apr 1991

Peak Power: 6.05%; week of May 19, 1991
Career Power: 320; share-weeks
Crowns: 3; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 128; December 1990 – December 1991
Peak Five Years: 266; January 1987 – December 1991
Top-five weeks: 9; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 69; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Apr 21, 1991
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

13 books · 320 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 Seeress of Kell	#1April 1991	12	April 1991 – June 1991	95.6	95.6
The Sapphire Rose	#5December 1991	5	November 1991 – December 1991	32.3	32.3
King of the Murgos	#6April 1988	6	April 1988 – May 1988	29.7	29.7
Demon Lord of Karanda	#7September 1988	7	August 1988 – October 1988	28.5	28.5
The Ruby Knight	#7November 1990	5	November 1990 – December 1990	27.3	27.2
Sorceress of Darshiva	#7December 1989	5	December 1989 – December 1989	19.9	19.9
The Diamond Throne	#9May 1989	5	May 1989 – June 1989	19.0	19.0
The Shining Ones	#8August 1993	5	August 1993 – September 1993	18.8	18.8
The Hidden City	#8August 1994	4	August 1994 – September 1994	15.9	15.9
Guardians of the West	#12May 1987	5	May 1987 – May 1987	13.7	13.7
Domes of Fire	#13December 1992	3	November 1992 – December 1992	7.7	7.5
Belgarath the Sorcererwith Leigh Eddings	#9September 1995	4	August 1995 – September 1995	7.2	14.3
Polgara the Sorceresswith Leigh Eddings	#11November 1997	3	November 1997 – November 1997	4.6	9.2

At their peak

1990 in books →

David Eddings's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1990 to December 1991. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.