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Joan D. Vinge

Charting Jun 12, 1983Jan 15, 1984 · 32 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    8 crowns

    19831984

    Longest reign 8 weeks (Jun–Jul 1983) · First crown Jun 1983

Peak Power
10.20%
week of Aug 28, 1983
Career Power
265
share-weeks
Crowns
8
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
265
January 1983 – January 1984
Peak Five Years
265
January 1979 – January 1984
Top-five weeks
15
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
32
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jun 12, 1983
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

2 books · 265 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
Return of the Jedi#131250.7
The Return of the Jedi#1114.5

At their peak

1983 in books

Joan D. Vinge's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1983 to January 1984. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James A. Michener459
  2. 2Stephen King436
  3. 3Umberto Eco344
  4. 4John le Carré343
  5. 5Joan D. Vinge265
  6. 6Danielle Steel211
  7. 7Stephen R. Donaldson169
  8. 8Jackie Collins168
  9. 9Nora Ephron158
  10. 10Judith Rossner137

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.