Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Marguerite Duras
Charting Jul 21, 1985 → Sep 8, 1985 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.25%
- week of Sep 8, 1985
- Career Power
- 30
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 30
- September 1984 – September 1985
- Peak Five Years
- 30
- September 1980 – September 1985
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Aug 4, 1985
- 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 · 30 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 Lover | #9 | 8 | 29.9 |
At their peak
1984 in books →Marguerite Duras's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1984 to September 1985. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Sidney Sheldon319
- 2Stephen King302
- 3Tom Clancy236
- 4Frederick Forsyth226
- 5Mario Puzo223
- 6Richard Bachman191
- 7John Jakes189
- 8Danielle Steel179
- 9Helen Hooven Santmyer167
- 10John Irving158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.