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Don Ferguson

Charting Feb 21, 1993Oct 16, 1994 · 18 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.13%
week of Oct 2, 1994
Career Power
66
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
50
October 1993 – October 1994
Peak Five Years
66
October 1989 – October 1994
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
18
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Aug 28, 1994
Comebacks
1
Aug 1994

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

2 books · 66 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
Disney's the Lion King#71149.7
Disney's Aladdin#13716.6

At their peak

1993 in books

Don Ferguson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1993 to October 1994. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert James Waller747
  2. 2James Redfield403
  3. 3Danielle Steel306
  4. 4John Grisham304
  5. 5Tom Clancy269
  6. 6Michael Crichton207
  7. 7Laura Esquivel203
  8. 8Stephen King166
  9. 9Caleb Carr141
  10. 10Anne Rice138

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.