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Dr. Seuss portraitDr. Seuss

Charting Mar 18, 1984Jul 9, 2000 · 233 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    5 crowns

    19842000

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Oh, the Places You'll Go!#11781,081.0
The Butter Battle Book#239235.1
Daisy-Head Mayzie#51168.7
My Many Colored Days#10514.9

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:

  1. 1Stephen King486
  2. 2Dr. Seuss366
  3. 3Scott Turow315
  4. 4Jean M. Auel238
  5. 5Rosamunde Pilcher228
  6. 6Sidney Sheldon217
  7. 7Danielle Steel212
  8. 8Robert Ludlum209
  9. 9Anne Rice140
  10. 10Dean R. Koontz139

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.