Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Larry Collins
Charting Sep 14, 1980 → Jul 16, 1989 · 39 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.41%
- week of Dec 7, 1980
- Career Power
- 125
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 95
- March 1980 – March 1981
- Peak Five Years
- 116
- September 1980 – September 1985
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 39
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Sep 28, 1980
- Comebacks
- 1
- Aug 1985
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
3 books · 125 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Fifth Horsemanwith Dominique Lapierre | #3 | 28 | 94.9 | ||
| Fall from Grace | #9 | 9 | 25.4 | ||
| Maze | #14 | 2 | 4.8 |
At their peak
1980 in books →Larry Collins's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1980 to March 1981. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Sidney Sheldon345
- 2Stephen King335
- 3Robert Ludlum329
- 4Ken Follett315
- 5James A. Michener311
- 6Cynthia Freeman260
- 7Judith Krantz254
- 8Belva Plain244
- 9Jeffrey Archer167
- 10E. L. Doctorow166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.