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Marguerite Duras portraitMarguerite Duras

Charting Jul 21, 1985Sep 8, 1985 · 8 weeks with chart power

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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.

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The Lover#9829.9

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:

  1. 1Sidney Sheldon319
  2. 2Stephen King302
  3. 3Tom Clancy236
  4. 4Frederick Forsyth226
  5. 5Mario Puzo223
  6. 6Richard Bachman191
  7. 7John Jakes189
  8. 8Danielle Steel179
  9. 9Helen Hooven Santmyer167
  10. 10John Irving158

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.