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Harold Coyle

Charting Sep 20, 1987Apr 19, 1992 · 13 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.62%
week of May 20, 1990
Career Power
41
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
18
May 1989 – May 1990
Peak Five Years
41
May 1987 – April 1992
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of May 13, 1990
Comebacks
1
Apr 1992

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

4 books · 41 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
Bright Star#9518.4
Trial by Fire#11412.5
Team Yankee#1237.3
Sword Point#1213.2

At their peak

1989 in books

Harold Coyle's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1989 to May 1990. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Clancy393
  2. 2John le Carré235
  3. 3Danielle Steel234
  4. 4Stephen King219
  5. 5Amy Tan197
  6. 6Mary Higgins Clark171
  7. 7James A. Michener168
  8. 8Dr. Seuss156
  9. 9Martin Cruz Smith150
  10. 10P.D. James140

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.