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Larry McMurtry portraitLarry McMurtry

Charting Jun 30, 1985 → Jun 8, 2014 · 108 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.21%
week of Oct 6, 1985
Career Power
542
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
116
May 1985 – May 1986
Peak Five Years
322
December 1984 – December 1989
Top-five weeks
16
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
108
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.09%
week of May 3, 1987
Comebacks
5
May 1987 · Nov 1988 · Aug 1993 · Oct 1995 · Dec 1997

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 · 542 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
Lonesome Dove#424121.3
Anything for Billy#31898.2
Streets of Laredo#31277.1
Texasville#31176.2
Comanche Moon#71145.3
Dead Man's Walk#7735.9
Buffalo Girls#6732.1
Some Can Whistle#6626.2
Sin Killer#12513.6
Telegraph Days#1337.0
The Last Kind Words Saloon#1336.9
The Wandering Hill#1512.1

At their peak

1985 in books →

Larry McMurtry's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1985 to May 1986. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Garrison Keillor454
  2. 2Jean M. Auel314
  3. 3Stephen King291
  4. 4James A. Michener277
  5. 5Danielle Steel200
  6. 6Tom Clancy197
  7. 7Carl Sagan196
  8. 8John Irving177
  9. 9Jackie Collins170
  10. 10Ken Follett157

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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