Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Gail Godwin
Charting Feb 28, 1982 → Apr 18, 1999 · 39 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.49%
- week of Apr 7, 1985
- Career Power
- 156
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 66
- July 1981 – July 1982
- Peak Five Years
- 121
- May 1980 – May 1985
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 39
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Mar 10, 1985
- Comebacks
- 2
- Mar 1985 · Nov 1987
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
5 books · 156 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Mother and Two Daughters | #8 | 18 | 66.4 | ||
| The Finishing School | #5 | 11 | 54.2 | ||
| A Southern Family | #7 | 8 | 30.6 | ||
| Father Melancholy's Daughter | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| Evensong | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1981 in books →Gail Godwin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1981 to July 1982. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Irving368
- 2James Clavell366
- 3Colleen McCullough360
- 4Stephen King302
- 5Martin Cruz Smith231
- 6Robert Ludlum229
- 7John Jakes226
- 8Andrew M. Greeley223
- 9Bette Bao Lord210
- 10Lawrence Sanders171
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.