Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Charting Apr 19, 1970 → Mar 31, 2024 · 55 weeks with chart power
- 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 →
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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love in the Time of Cholera | #2 | 39 | 240.2 | ||
| The General in His Labyrinth | #3 | 11 | 62.5 | ||
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | #9 | 1 | 4.8 | ||
| Of Love and Other Demons | #14 | 2 | 4.6 | ||
| The Autumn of the Patriarch | #10 | 1 | 4.2 | ||
| Until August | #15 | 1 | 2.2 |
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:
- 1Tom Clancy413
- 2Tom Wolfe350
- 3James A. Michener298
- 4Robert Ludlum270
- 5Danielle Steel248
- 6Gabriel Garcia Marquez240
- 7Sidney Sheldon198
- 8Rosamunde Pilcher194
- 9Anne Tyler169
- 10Anne Rice161
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.