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
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top author
- 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
- December 2012, June 2016
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Apr 5, 1987 | Dec 23, 2012 | 1339 | 877 | 2.54% | 1.08% |
| After absence | Apr 14, 2013 | Jun 12, 2016 | 163 | 161 | 2.54% | 1.05% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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.
| 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 |