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Larry Bond

Charting Jun 4, 1989Jul 21, 1991 · 21 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.03%
week of Sep 3, 1989
Career Power
133
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
104
September 1988 – September 1989
Peak Five Years
133
August 1986 – July 1991
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
21
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Jul 2, 1989
Comebacks
1
Jul 1991

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 · 133 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
Red Phoenix#415103.7
Vortex#7629.3

At their peak

1988 in books

Larry Bond's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1988 to September 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Clancy368
  2. 2Sidney Sheldon244
  3. 3Salman Rushdie224
  4. 4Anne Tyler209
  5. 5Danielle Steel197
  6. 6Amy Tan194
  7. 7John le Carré193
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark179
  9. 9Anne Rice161
  10. 10Frederick Forsyth158

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.