Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Dominick Dunne
Charting Aug 18, 1985 → Feb 1, 1998 · 67 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.98%
- week of Jul 31, 1988
- Career Power
- 376
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 95
- December 1984 – December 1985
- Peak Five Years
- 255
- August 1985 – August 1990
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 67
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.69%
- week of Dec 14, 1997
- Comebacks
- 4
- May 1988 · Jun 1990 · May 1993 · Dec 1997
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
5 books · 376 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 Two Mrs. Grenvilles | #5 | 16 | 94.6 | ||
| An Inconvenient Woman | #6 | 18 | 89.0 | ||
| People Like Us | #4 | 14 | 86.8 | ||
| Another City, Not My Own | #4 | 10 | 57.5 | ||
| A Season in Purgatory | #5 | 9 | 48.6 |
At their peak
1984 in books →Dominick Dunne's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1984 to December 1985. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephen King339
- 2Sidney Sheldon330
- 3Tom Clancy266
- 4Danielle Steel241
- 5Richard Bachman191
- 6Garrison Keillor191
- 7Mario Puzo183
- 8John Irving177
- 9Jackie Collins150
- 10Louis L'Amour148
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.