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Eileen Goudge

Charting Jun 11, 1989Feb 16, 1992 · 11 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
1.42%
week of Jul 30, 1989
Career Power
30
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
21
August 1988 – August 1989
Peak Five Years
30
March 1987 – February 1992
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.63%
week of Feb 2, 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

2 books · 30 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
Garden of Lies#12820.6
Such Devoted Sisters#1139.4

At their peak

1988 in books

Eileen Goudge's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1988 to August 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Clancy397
  2. 2Sidney Sheldon244
  3. 3Salman Rushdie222
  4. 4Danielle Steel217
  5. 5Anne Tyler209
  6. 6James A. Michener200
  7. 7Anne Rice161
  8. 8Amy Tan157
  9. 9Mary Higgins Clark155
  10. 10Frederick Forsyth150

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.