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Charting Sep 28, 1986 → Oct 20, 2024 · 47 weeks with chart power

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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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Beet Queen#81550.8
The Round House#121228.1
The Crown of Columbuswith Michael Dorris#9711.7
Larose#8311.0
Tracks#12410.4
The Night Watchman#1028.4
The Mighty Red#716.3
The Sentence#914.8
Future Home of the Living God#1312.8
A Plague of Doves#1611.8

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:

  1. 1Tom Clancy312
  2. 2Robert Ludlum306
  3. 3Danielle Steel275
  4. 4Stephen King269
  5. 5Jean M. Auel262
  6. 6Garrison Keillor244
  7. 7Louis L'Amour206
  8. 8John le Carré200
  9. 9Judith Krantz196
  10. 10Ken Follett184

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.