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Leigh Eddings

Charting Aug 20, 1995Nov 16, 1997 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.66%
week of Sep 10, 1995
Career Power
12
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
7
September 1994 – September 1995
Peak Five Years
12
November 1992 – November 1997
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Sep 3, 1995
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

2 books · 12 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
Belgarath the Sorcererwith David Eddings#947.2
Polgara the Sorceresswith David Eddings#1134.6

At their peak

1994 in books

Leigh Eddings's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1994 to September 1995. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Redfield600
  2. 2James Finn Garner514
  3. 3Robert James Waller470
  4. 4John Grisham292
  5. 5Stephen King253
  6. 6Danielle Steel231
  7. 7Tom Clancy224
  8. 8Anne Rice215
  9. 9Mary Higgins Clark203
  10. 10Patricia Cornwell123

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.