Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Douglas Adams
Charting Oct 31, 1982 → Jan 17, 1993 · 72 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.41%
- week of Mar 3, 1985
- Career Power
- 408
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 111
- April 1984 – March 1985
- Peak Five Years
- 284
- October 1982 – September 1987
- Top-five weeks
- 16
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 72
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.30%
- week of Nov 15, 1992
- Comebacks
- 4
- Dec 1984 · Jul 1987 · Apr 1989 · Nov 1992
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
6 books · 408 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish | #3 | 14 | 109.4 | ||
| Life, the Universe and Everything | #7 | 21 | 87.5 | ||
| Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | #5 | 14 | 84.7 | ||
| Mostly Harmless | #3 | 12 | 75.6 | ||
| The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul | #6 | 10 | 48.9 | ||
| So Long, an Thanks for All the Fish | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1984 in books →Douglas Adams's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1984 to March 1985. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Helen Hooven Santmyer330
- 2Robert Ludlum296
- 3Frederick Forsyth262
- 4Gore Vidal242
- 5Danielle Steel230
- 6Dr. Seuss218
- 7Mario Puzo216
- 8Leon Uris190
- 9John Jakes189
- 10Stephen King188
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.