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David Nevin

Charting Mar 4, 1984Mar 25, 1984 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.41%
week of Mar 25, 1984
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
April 1983 – March 1984
Peak Five Years
4
April 1979 – March 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Mar 4, 1984
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 · 4 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
Dream West#1424.5

At their peak

1983 in books

David Nevin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1983 to March 1984. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King545
  2. 2James A. Michener421
  3. 3Umberto Eco420
  4. 4John le Carré314
  5. 5Joan D. Vinge265
  6. 6Danielle Steel224
  7. 7Jackie Collins180
  8. 8Stephen R. Donaldson169
  9. 9Nora Ephron158
  10. 10Judith Rossner139

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.