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Garrison Keillor

Charting Mar 28, 1982Oct 21, 2007 · 121 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    6 crowns

    19822007

    Longest reign 4 weeks (Sep–Oct 1985) · First crown Sep 1985

Peak Power
12.18%
week of Mar 2, 1986
Career Power
915
share-weeks
Crowns
6
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
511
August 1985 – July 1986
Peak Five Years
747
July 1984 – July 1989
Top-five weeks
58
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
121
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Sep 15, 1985
Comebacks
1
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

10 books · 915 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
Lake Wobegon Days#148511.2
Leaving Home#221174.7
We Are Still Married#51360.8
The Book of Guys#6943.5
WLT#7732.6
Wobegon Boy#9726.1
Pontoon#3424.6
Lake Wobegon Summer 1956#7524.4
Love Me#1149.6
Happy to Be Here#1237.6

At their peak

1985 in books

Garrison Keillor's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1985 to July 1986. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Garrison Keillor511
  2. 2Jean M. Auel360
  3. 3James A. Michener277
  4. 4Robert Ludlum249
  5. 5Stephen King203
  6. 6Danielle Steel197
  7. 7Carl Sagan196
  8. 8Ken Follett184
  9. 9Jackie Collins170
  10. 10Lawrence Sanders168

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.