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Dennis McFarland

Charting Jun 17, 1990Jun 17, 1990 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.23%
week of Jun 17, 1990
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
June 1989 – June 1990
Peak Five Years
2
June 1985 – June 1990
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of Jun 17, 1990
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 · 2 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 Music Room#1512.1

At their peak

1989 in books

Dennis McFarland's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1989 to June 1990. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Clancy406
  2. 2Stephen King270
  3. 3Danielle Steel212
  4. 4John le Carré205
  5. 5Dr. Seuss201
  6. 6James A. Michener168
  7. 7Amy Tan164
  8. 8Robert Ludlum156
  9. 9Martin Cruz Smith150
  10. 10P.D. James140

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.