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Dominick Dunne

Charting Aug 18, 1985Feb 1, 1998 · 67 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles#51694.6
An Inconvenient Woman#61889.0
People Like Us#41486.8
Another City, Not My Own#41057.5
A Season in Purgatory#5948.6

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:

  1. 1Stephen King339
  2. 2Sidney Sheldon330
  3. 3Tom Clancy266
  4. 4Danielle Steel241
  5. 5Richard Bachman191
  6. 6Garrison Keillor191
  7. 7Mario Puzo183
  8. 8John Irving177
  9. 9Jackie Collins150
  10. 10Louis L'Amour148

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.