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Charting Aug 13, 1989Aug 22, 2010 · 52 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.07%
week of Oct 1, 1989
Career Power
213
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
62
August 1989 – August 1990
Peak Five Years
109
October 1987 – October 1992
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
52
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Aug 27, 1989
Comebacks
3
Oct 1991 · Oct 1996 · Jun 2001

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

13 books · 213 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
Knight in Shining Armor#51047.1
Sweet Liar#7731.3
The Summerhouse#7625.2
Legend#8521.8
The Duchess#9415.9
Mountain Laurel#10415.1
The Mulberry Tree#8412.7
Wild Orchids#6210.9
Lavender Morning#7210.0
High Tide#1437.7
Someone to Love#827.6
Temptation#1225.9
Scarlet Nights#1512.1

At their peak

1989 in books

Jude Deveraux's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1989 to August 1990. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Clancy414
  2. 2Stephen King336
  3. 3Danielle Steel297
  4. 4Dr. Seuss263
  5. 5Robert Ludlum196
  6. 6Rosamunde Pilcher175
  7. 7James A. Michener168
  8. 8P.D. James140
  9. 9Dean R. Koontz134
  10. 10Ken Follett129

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.