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Edward Rutherfurd

Charting Aug 23, 1987Jun 2, 2013 · 61 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.19%
week of Nov 8, 1987
Career Power
305
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
133
February 1987 – February 1988
Peak Five Years
157
October 1986 – October 1991
Top-five weeks
6
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
61
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Sep 20, 1987
Comebacks
3
Oct 1991 · Jul 1997, after 6 quiet years · Apr 2004, after 6 quiet years

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

7 books · 305 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
Sarum#324132.7
London#51886.2
The Princes of Ireland#8629.5
Russka#7524.1
Paris#4419.3
The Rebels of Ireland#10310.6
New York#1412.4

At their peak

1987 in books

Edward Rutherfurd's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1987 to February 1988. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King632
  2. 2Danielle Steel457
  3. 3Tom Clancy432
  4. 4Scott Turow368
  5. 5Sidney Sheldon303
  6. 6Louis L'Amour188
  7. 7Garrison Keillor171
  8. 8Tom Wolfe159
  9. 9Edward Rutherfurd133
  10. 10John Jakes130

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.