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Judith Viorst

Charting Oct 22, 1989Nov 26, 1989 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.39%
week of Nov 26, 1989
Career Power
17
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
17
December 1988 – November 1989
Peak Five Years
17
December 1984 – November 1989
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Oct 22, 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

1 book · 17 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
FOREVER FIFTY: And Other Negotiations#10617.2

At their peak

1988 in books

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

  1. 1Tom Clancy369
  2. 2Amy Tan253
  3. 3John le Carré235
  4. 4Salman Rushdie224
  5. 5Danielle Steel222
  6. 6Sidney Sheldon215
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark187
  8. 8Frederick Forsyth158
  9. 9Martin Cruz Smith150
  10. 10John Irving126

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.