Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Charting Feb 20, 1983 → May 29, 1983 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.61%
- week of May 8, 1983
- Career Power
- 45
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 45
- June 1982 – May 1983
- Peak Five Years
- 45
- March 1978 – May 1983
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Mar 20, 1983
- 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 · 45 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 Mists of Avalon | #7 | 13 | 45.1 |
At their peak
1982 in books →Marion Zimmer Bradley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1982 to May 1983. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James A. Michener399
- 2Sidney Sheldon341
- 3Stephen King318
- 4Jean M. Auel308
- 5Robert Ludlum245
- 6William Kotzwinkle235
- 7Arthur C. Clarke222
- 8Judith Krantz212
- 9Jeffrey Archer208
- 10Stephen R. Donaldson197
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.