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L. Ron Hubbard

Charting Jun 19, 1983 → Jul 25, 1999 · 24 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power: 1.31%; week of Feb 15, 1987
Career Power: 64; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 36; February 1986 – February 1987
Peak Five Years: 58; December 1982 – November 1987
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 24; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.34%; week of Feb 1, 1987
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

12 books · 64 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
Fortune of Fear	#10November 1986	4	October 1986 – November 1986	11.5	11.5
Death Quest	#10February 1987	4	January 1987 – February 1987	11.4	11.1
Voyage of Vengeance	#13May 1987	2	May 1987 – June 1987	5.2	5.2
The Invaders Plan	#13December 1985	2	December 1985 – December 1985	5.2	5.2
A Very Strange Tripwith Dave Wolverton	#7July 1999	2	July 1999 – July 1999	5.1	10.0
An Alien Affair	#13August 1986	2	August 1986 – August 1986	4.6	4.6
Battlefield Earth	#14June 1983	2	June 1983 – July 1983	4.5	4.5
Black Genesis	#14April 1986	2	April 1986 – April 1986	4.2	4.2
The Doomed Planet	#10November 1987	1	November 1987	4.2	4.2
The Enemy Within	#10May 1986	1	May 1986	4.2	4.2
Villainy Victorious	#13October 1987	1	October 1987	2.8	2.8
Ai! Pedrito!with Kevin J. Anderson	#15July 1998	1	July 1998	1.0	2.1

At their peak

1986 in books →

L. Ron Hubbard's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1986 to February 1987. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.