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Don DeLillo

Charting Aug 14, 1988 → Nov 8, 2020 · 19 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power: 3.80%; week of Nov 16, 1997
Career Power: 81; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 54; January 1997 – January 1998
Peak Five Years: 54; January 1993 – January 1998
Top-five weeks: 2; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 19; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 8.34%; week of Oct 5, 1997
Comebacks: 1; Oct 1997, after 9 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

5 books · 81 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
Underworld	#5October 1997	9	September 1997 – January 1998	54.0	53.9
Libra	#9September 1988	5	August 1988 – September 1988	14.4	14.4
Zero K	#12May 2016	2	May 2016 – May 2016	5.9	5.9
Falling Man	#15June 2007	2	June 2007 – June 2007	4.2	4.2
The Silence	#14November 2020	1	November 2020	2.4	2.4

At their peak

1997 in books →

Don DeLillo's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1997 to January 1998. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

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