Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Margaret Truman
Charting Aug 3, 1980 → Sep 17, 1989 · 11 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.66%
- week of Sep 17, 1989
- Career Power
- 34
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 22
- September 1988 – September 1989
- Peak Five Years
- 22
- September 1984 – September 1989
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 11
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Aug 3, 1980
- 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
2 books · 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murder at the Kennedy Center | #9 | 7 | 22.2 | ||
| Murder in the White House | #9 | 4 | 11.7 |
At their peak
1988 in books →Margaret Truman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1988 to September 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy368
- 2Sidney Sheldon244
- 3Salman Rushdie224
- 4Anne Tyler209
- 5Amy Tan204
- 6John le Carré204
- 7Danielle Steel195
- 8Mary Higgins Clark183
- 9Anne Rice161
- 10Frederick Forsyth158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.