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Eric Van Lustbader

Charting May 11, 1980 → Jun 24, 2012 · 74 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.12%
week of Aug 17, 1980
Career Power
361
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
117
October 1979 – October 1980
Peak Five Years
166
November 1979 – October 1984
Top-five weeks
11
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
74
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Aug 17, 2008
Comebacks
2
Sep 1984 · Jul 2007, after 23 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

13 books · 361 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
The Ninja#422117.3
The Bourne Sanction#2760.6
The Bourne Betrayal#81141.4
The Miko#8938.8
The Bourne Deception#2437.2
The Bourne Legacy#8621.2
Sirens#1349.6
The Bourne Objective#939.6
The Bourne Dominion#928.0
French KISS#1126.0
Shan#1225.1
Jian#1213.2
The Bourne Imperative#1213.2

At their peak

1979 in books →

Eric Van Lustbader's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1979 to October 1980. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Ludlum406
  2. 2Judith Krantz358
  3. 3Ken Follett277
  4. 4Kurt Vonnegut271
  5. 5Frederick Forsyth252
  6. 6Stephen King250
  7. 7John le Carré239
  8. 8Belva Plain227
  9. 9Howard Fast215
  10. 10Sidney Sheldon199

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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