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Jayne Anne Phillips portraitJayne Anne Phillips

Charting Jul 29, 1984Aug 19, 1984 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.68%
week of Aug 19, 1984
Career Power
7
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
7
August 1983 – August 1984
Peak Five Years
7
September 1979 – August 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Aug 12, 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 · 7 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.

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Machine Dreams#1337.2

At their peak

1983 in books

Jayne Anne Phillips's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1983 to August 1984. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James A. Michener404
  2. 2Stephen King401
  3. 3Danielle Steel376
  4. 4Umberto Eco339
  5. 5Robert Ludlum305
  6. 6Leon Uris174
  7. 7Dr. Seuss172
  8. 8Jackie Collins161
  9. 9Bill Adler143
  10. 10Thomas Chastain143

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.