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Charting Nov 11, 1990 → Nov 11, 1990 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.26%
week of Nov 11, 1990
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
November 1989 – November 1990
Peak Five Years
2
November 1985 – November 1990
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.41%
week of Nov 11, 1990
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 · 2 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
In Praise of the Stepmother#1412.4

At their peak

1989 in books →

Mario Vargas Llosa's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1989 to November 1990. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King490
  2. 2Danielle Steel381
  3. 3Dr. Seuss332
  4. 4Scott Turow262
  5. 5Tom Clancy258
  6. 6Rosamunde Pilcher228
  7. 7Robert Ludlum209
  8. 8James A. Michener168
  9. 9Sidney Sheldon141
  10. 10P.D. James140

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.