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Helen Hooven Santmyer

Charting Jun 17, 1984 → Mar 3, 1985 · 38 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    7 crowns

    19841985

    Longest reign 7 weeks (Jul–Aug 1984) · First crown Jul 1984

Peak Power
10.60%
week of Oct 14, 1984
Career Power
330
share-weeks
Crowns
7
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
330
March 1984 – March 1985
Peak Five Years
330
March 1980 – March 1985
Top-five weeks
19
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
38
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jul 8, 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 · 330 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
. . . and Ladies of the Club,#138329.7

At their peak

1984 in books →

Helen Hooven Santmyer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1984 to March 1985. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Ludlum354
  2. 2Helen Hooven Santmyer330
  3. 3Frederick Forsyth262
  4. 4Gore Vidal242
  5. 5Dr. Seuss235
  6. 6Stephen King226
  7. 7Mario Puzo194
  8. 8Leon Uris190
  9. 9John Jakes186
  10. 10Danielle Steel184

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.