Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Frank Herbert
Charting Apr 26, 1981 → Aug 18, 1985 · 61 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.96%
- week of Jul 26, 1981
- Career Power
- 369
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 152
- January 1981 – January 1982
- Peak Five Years
- 369
- August 1980 – August 1985
- Top-five weeks
- 21
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 61
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of May 12, 1985
- Comebacks
- 1
- Apr 1984
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
3 books · 369 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| God Emperor of Dune | #3 | 25 | 151.8 | ||
| Heretics of Dune | #3 | 20 | 117.5 | ||
| Chapterhouse: Dune | #2 | 16 | 99.5 |
At their peak
1981 in books →Frank Herbert's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1981 to January 1982. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Clavell443
- 2Martin Cruz Smith373
- 3Stephen King347
- 4James A. Michener285
- 5Kit Williams254
- 6John Irving236
- 7Colleen McCullough182
- 8Lawrence Sanders171
- 9Cynthia Freeman169
- 10Andrew M. Greeley153
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.