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Marek Halter portraitMarek Halter

Charting May 18, 1986Jun 22, 1986 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.74%
week of Jun 22, 1986
Career Power
22
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
22
June 1985 – June 1986
Peak Five Years
22
July 1981 – June 1986
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Jun 1, 1986
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

1 book · 22 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 Book of Abraham#6622.1

At their peak

1985 in books

Marek Halter's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1985 to June 1986. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Garrison Keillor492
  2. 2Jean M. Auel347
  3. 3James A. Michener277
  4. 4Stephen King276
  5. 5Robert Ludlum202
  6. 6Carl Sagan196
  7. 7Danielle Steel177
  8. 8Ken Follett177
  9. 9Jackie Collins170
  10. 10Lawrence Sanders155

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.