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John Jakes

Charting Feb 7, 1982 → Sep 22, 2002 · 98 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
7 crowns
19822002
Longest reign 4 weeks (Nov–Dec 1984) · First crown Feb 1982

Peak Power: 9.70%; week of May 9, 1982
Career Power: 726; share-weeks
Crowns: 7; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 284; September 1981 – September 1982
Peak Five Years: 473; March 1980 – March 1985
Top-five weeks: 46; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 98; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Feb 28, 1982
Comebacks: 3; Nov 1984 · Oct 1987 · Oct 1989

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

7 books · 726 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
North and South	#1February 1982	33	February 1982 – September 1982	284.3	284.3
Love and War	#2November 1984	21	October 1984 – March 1985	188.9	188.9
Heaven and Hell	#2October 1987	20	October 1987 – February 1988	132.8	132.5
California Gold	#3September 1989	17	September 1989 – January 1990	103.6	103.6
Charleston	#12August 2002	4	August 2002 – September 2002	9.8	9.8
Homeland	#15July 1993	2	July 1993 – July 1993	4.2	4.2
On Secret Service	#15July 2000	1	July 2000	2.2	2.1

At their peak

1981 in books →

John Jakes's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1981 to September 1982. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.