Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Louise Erdrich
Charting Sep 28, 1986 → Oct 20, 2024 · 47 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.54%
- week of Dec 7, 1986
- Career Power
- 136
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 51
- January 1986 – January 1987
- Peak Five Years
- 73
- July 1986 – June 1991
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 47
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Oct 20, 2024
- Comebacks
- 2
- Dec 2012, after 26 quiet years · Jun 2016
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
10 books · 136 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 Beet Queen | #8 | 15 | 50.8 | ||
| The Round House | #12 | 12 | 28.1 | ||
| The Crown of Columbuswith Michael Dorris | #9 | 7 | 11.7 | ||
| Larose | #8 | 3 | 11.0 | ||
| Tracks | #12 | 4 | 10.4 | ||
| The Night Watchman | #10 | 2 | 8.4 | ||
| The Mighty Red | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| The Sentence | #9 | 1 | 4.8 | ||
| Future Home of the Living God | #13 | 1 | 2.8 | ||
| A Plague of Doves | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1986 in books →Louise Erdrich's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1986 to January 1987. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy312
- 2Robert Ludlum306
- 3Danielle Steel275
- 4Stephen King269
- 5Jean M. Auel262
- 6Garrison Keillor244
- 7Louis L'Amour206
- 8John le Carré200
- 9Judith Krantz196
- 10Ken Follett184
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.