Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ed McBain
Charting Mar 8, 1992 → Mar 15, 1992 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.86%
- week of Mar 15, 1992
- Career Power
- 8
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 8
- March 1991 – March 1992
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- March 1987 – March 1992
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Mar 8, 1992
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
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
1 book · 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KISS | #9 | 2 | 8.4 |
At their peak
1991 in books →Ed McBain's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1991 to March 1992. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Grisham404
- 2Alexandra Ripley305
- 3Danielle Steel289
- 4Tom Clancy279
- 5Dr. Seuss236
- 6Mary Higgins Clark207
- 7Stephen King203
- 8Amy Tan181
- 9Timothy Zahn170
- 10Sidney Sheldon152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1990s.