Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
David Niven
Charting Dec 27, 1981 → Apr 18, 1982 · 11 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.04%
- week of Jan 31, 1982
- Career Power
- 37
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 37
- April 1981 – April 1982
- Peak Five Years
- 37
- January 1977 – April 1982
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 11
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Jan 17, 1982
- 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 · 37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly | #9 | 11 | 37.5 |
At their peak
1981 in books →David Niven's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1981 to April 1982. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Clavell497
- 2Martin Cruz Smith374
- 3John Irving339
- 4Colleen McCullough334
- 5Stephen King302
- 6Bette Bao Lord175
- 7Lawrence Sanders171
- 8Andrew M. Greeley162
- 9Kit Williams152
- 10Frank Herbert152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.