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Ethan Canin

Charting Mar 20, 1988Jul 20, 2008 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.46%
week of May 8, 1988
Career Power
22
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
18
May 1987 – May 1988
Peak Five Years
18
May 1983 – May 1988
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.16%
week of May 1, 1988
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 · 22 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
Emperor of the Air#12718.0
America America#1523.9

At their peak

1987 in books

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

  1. 1Stephen King540
  2. 2Scott Turow462
  3. 3Danielle Steel403
  4. 4Tom Clancy370
  5. 5Tom Wolfe328
  6. 6Louis L'Amour188
  7. 7Garrison Keillor175
  8. 8Toni Morrison150
  9. 9John Jakes133
  10. 10Edward Rutherfurd133

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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