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Louis L'Amour

Charting Apr 3, 1983 → Jul 1, 2001 · 131 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
6 crowns
19832001
Longest reign 4 weeks (Jun–Jul 1986) · First crown Jun 1985

Peak Power: 8.62%; week of Jul 26, 1987
Career Power: 888; share-weeks
Crowns: 6; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 262; June 1986 – June 1987
Peak Five Years: 775; October 1982 – September 1987
Top-five weeks: 50; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 131; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Jun 2, 1985
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

13 books · 888 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
Last of the Breed	#1June 1986	26	June 1986 – January 1987	205.6	205.6
The Haunted Mesa	#1May 1987	20	May 1987 – September 1987	188.1	186.9
Jubal Sackett	#1June 1985	19	May 1985 – September 1985	148.0	148.0
The Walking Drum	#2June 1984	16	May 1984 – September 1984	117.9	117.9
The Lonesome Gods	#2April 1983	19	April 1983 – August 1983	115.7	115.7
The Rustlers of West Fork	#6June 1991	8	June 1991 – August 1991	34.7	34.7
The Outlaws of Mesquite	#8July 1990	6	June 1990 – July 1990	23.3	23.3
End of the Drive	#6June 1997	5	June 1997 – July 1997	19.3	19.3
Beyond the Great Snow Mountains	#9July 1999	6	May 1999 – July 1999	17.9	17.7
Monument Rock	#12July 1998	2	July 1998 – July 1998	6.3	6.3
May There Be a Road	#11July 2001	2	June 2001 – July 2001	6.0	6.0
Off the Mangrove Coast	#14July 2000	1	July 2000	2.5	2.4
The Trail to Seven Pines	#14July 1992	1	July 1992	2.4	2.4

At their peak

1986 in books →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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