Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Dr. Seuss
Charting Mar 18, 1984 → Jul 9, 2000 · 233 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
5 crowns
19842000Longest reign 3 weeks (Jun 1992) · First crown Mar 1990
- Peak Power
- 10.11%
- week of Jul 1, 1990
- Career Power
- 1,400
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 5
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 366
- February 1990 – February 1991
- Peak Five Years
- 839
- August 1989 – July 1994
- Top-five weeks
- 66
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 233
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Mar 4, 1990
- Comebacks
- 3
- Mar 1990, after 5 quiet years · Mar 1995 · Jun 1997
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 books · 1,400 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oh, the Places You'll Go! | #1 | 178 | 1,081.0 | ||
| The Butter Battle Book | #2 | 39 | 235.1 | ||
| Daisy-Head Mayzie | #5 | 11 | 68.7 | ||
| My Many Colored Days | #10 | 5 | 14.9 |
At their peak
1990 in books →Dr. Seuss's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1990 to February 1991. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephen King486
- 2Dr. Seuss366
- 3Scott Turow315
- 4Jean M. Auel238
- 5Rosamunde Pilcher228
- 6Sidney Sheldon217
- 7Danielle Steel212
- 8Robert Ludlum209
- 9Anne Rice140
- 10Dean R. Koontz139
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.