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
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top author
- 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
- October 1990
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Mar 19, 1989 | Oct 14, 1990 | 82 | 79 | 7.81% | 3.21% |
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.
| 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 |