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Gary Jennings

Charting Feb 5, 1984Apr 15, 1984 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.93%
week of Apr 15, 1984
Career Power
30
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
30
April 1983 – April 1984
Peak Five Years
30
April 1979 – April 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Feb 26, 1984
Comebacks
0
none detected

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

1 book · 30 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
The Journeyer#91030.1

At their peak

1983 in books

Gary Jennings's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1983 to April 1984. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King553
  2. 2Umberto Eco431
  3. 3James A. Michener418
  4. 4John le Carré270
  5. 5Joan D. Vinge265
  6. 6Danielle Steel224
  7. 7Jackie Collins180
  8. 8Nora Ephron158
  9. 9Stephen R. Donaldson143
  10. 10Bill Adler140

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.