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Gabriel Garcia Marquez portraitGabriel Garcia Marquez

Charting Apr 19, 1970Mar 31, 2024 · 55 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
7.81%
week of Jul 31, 1988
Career Power
318
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
240
February 1988 – February 1989
Peak Five Years
303
January 1986 – January 1991
Top-five weeks
15
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
55
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of May 8, 1988
Comebacks
1
Oct 1990

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

6 books · 318 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
Love in the Time of Cholera#239240.2
The General in His Labyrinth#31162.5
One Hundred Years of Solitude#914.8
Of Love and Other Demons#1424.6
The Autumn of the Patriarch#1014.2
Until August#1512.2

At their peak

1988 in books

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1988 to February 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Clancy413
  2. 2Tom Wolfe350
  3. 3James A. Michener298
  4. 4Robert Ludlum270
  5. 5Danielle Steel248
  6. 6Gabriel Garcia Marquez240
  7. 7Sidney Sheldon198
  8. 8Rosamunde Pilcher194
  9. 9Anne Tyler169
  10. 10Anne Rice161

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.