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Joseph F. Girzone

Charting Aug 27, 1989Dec 9, 1990 · 13 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
2.81%
week of Oct 15, 1989
Career Power
50
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
45
November 1988 – November 1989
Peak Five Years
50
December 1985 – December 1990
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Sep 10, 1989
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 · 50 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
Joshua and the Children#61144.7
The Shepherd#1325.2

At their peak

1988 in books

Joseph F. Girzone's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1988 to November 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Clancy370
  2. 2Amy Tan248
  3. 3Sidney Sheldon244
  4. 4John le Carré235
  5. 5Salman Rushdie224
  6. 6Danielle Steel195
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark187
  8. 8Frederick Forsyth158
  9. 9Martin Cruz Smith150
  10. 10Anne Tyler129

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.