Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Dick Francis

Charting May 25, 1980 → Sep 5, 2010 · 231 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power: 6.16%; week of May 25, 1986
Career Power: 1,362; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 140; February 1989 – January 1990
Peak Five Years: 504; January 1986 – January 1991
Top-five weeks: 60; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 231; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 12.64%; week of Apr 8, 1984
Comebacks: 3; Oct 1995 · Oct 2000 · Oct 2006, after 6 quiet years

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

27 books · 1,362 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
Break In	#2April 1986	13	March 1986 – June 1986	103.9	103.9
Bolt	#3April 1987	13	March 1987 – June 1987	97.9	96.8
Twice Shy	#3April 1982	16	April 1982 – August 1982	91.9	91.9
The Edge	#3March 1989	11	February 1989 – May 1989	87.8	87.8
The Danger	#2April 1984	13	April 1984 – July 1984	86.3	86.3
Longshot	#3November 1990	12	October 1990 – January 1991	82.8	82.3
Banker	#6April 1983	16	April 1983 – July 1983	81.8	81.8
Reflex	#5April 1981	15	April 1981 – July 1981	79.5	79.5
Hot Money	#3March 1988	11	March 1988 – May 1988	79.1	79.1
Comeback	#3November 1991	12	November 1991 – January 1992	71.7	71.7
Driving Force	#3November 1992	9	November 1992 – January 1993	58.4	57.4
Proof	#5March 1985	12	March 1985 – June 1985	58.3	58.3
Straight	#6December 1989	10	November 1989 – January 1990	52.1	52.1
Come to Grief	#4October 1995	7	October 1995 – November 1995	44.5	44.5
10 LB. Penalty	#5October 1997	7	October 1997 – November 1997	44.3	44.3
Decider	#7November 1993	8	October 1993 – December 1993	38.0	36.3
To the Hilt	#6October 1996	6	October 1996 – November 1996	36.5	36.4
Shattered	#5October 2000	5	October 2000 – October 2000	29.9	29.9
Under Orders	#3October 2006	4	October 2006 – November 2006	26.7	26.7
Wild Horses	#8October 1994	6	October 1994 – November 1994	25.2	25.2
Field of Thirteen	#7October 1998	6	September 1998 – November 1998	25.1	25.1
Second Wind	#8October 1999	5	October 1999 – November 1999	23.2	20.7
Whip Hand	#13June 1980	5	May 1980 – June 1980	12.3	12.3
Dead Heatwith Felix Francis	#3October 2007	4	October 2007 – October 2007	11.4	22.7
Silkswith Felix Francis	#4September 2008	3	September 2008 – September 2008	9.4	18.7
Even Moneywith Felix Francis	#9September 2009	1	September 2009	2.4	4.8
Crossfirewith Felix Francis	#11September 2010	1	September 2010	1.8	3.6

At their peak

1989 in books →

Dick Francis's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1989 to January 1990. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.