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John Mortimer

Charting Apr 20, 1986May 11, 1986 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.56%
week of May 11, 1986
Career Power
6
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
6
May 1985 – May 1986
Peak Five Years
6
May 1981 – May 1986
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.63%
week of May 11, 1986
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 · 6 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
Paradise Postponed#1125.7

At their peak

1985 in books

John Mortimer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1985 to May 1986. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Garrison Keillor445
  2. 2Jean M. Auel306
  3. 3Stephen King291
  4. 4James A. Michener277
  5. 5Tom Clancy208
  6. 6Danielle Steel207
  7. 7Carl Sagan196
  8. 8John Irving177
  9. 9Jackie Collins170
  10. 10Ken Follett151

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.