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Dominique Lapierre

Charting Sep 14, 1980Mar 22, 1981 · 28 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.41%
week of Dec 7, 1980
Career Power
95
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
95
March 1980 – March 1981
Peak Five Years
95
January 1976 – March 1981
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Sep 28, 1980
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 · 95 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 Fifth Horsemanwith Larry Collins#32894.9

At their peak

1980 in books

Dominique Lapierre's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1980 to March 1981. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Sidney Sheldon345
  2. 2Stephen King335
  3. 3Robert Ludlum329
  4. 4Ken Follett315
  5. 5James A. Michener311
  6. 6Cynthia Freeman260
  7. 7Judith Krantz254
  8. 8Belva Plain244
  9. 9Jeffrey Archer167
  10. 10E. L. Doctorow166

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.