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James Clavell

Charting Sep 23, 1962 → Aug 1, 1993 · 159 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year: 1981

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
19 crowns
19621993
Longest reign 15 weeks (May–Aug 1981) · First crown May 1981

Peak Power: 12.12%; week of Sep 20, 1981
Career Power: 1,367; share-weeks
Crowns: 19; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 497; April 1981 – March 1982
Peak Five Years: 497; January 1977 – March 1982
Top-five weeks: 88; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 159; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of May 10, 1981
Comebacks: 4; Aug 1975, after 8 quiet years · May 1981, after 5 quiet years · Nov 1986, after 5 quiet years · Jul 1993, after 6 quiet years

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

6 books · 1,367 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
Noble House	#1May 1981	47	May 1981 – March 1982	497.2	497.2
Tai-Pan	#2October 1966	44	June 1966 – April 1967	351.0	351.0
Shogun	#3August 1975	32	July 1975 – February 1976	234.8	234.8
Whirlwind	#1November 1986	22	November 1986 – April 1987	201.8	200.3
Gai-Jin	#4May 1993	13	May 1993 – August 1993	79.6	79.6
King Rat	#13September 1962	1	September 1962	2.8	2.8

At their peak

1981 in books →

James Clavell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1981 to March 1982. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.