Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Martha Grimes
Charting Sep 6, 1987 → Apr 25, 2010 · 38 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.16%
- week of Oct 15, 1989
- Career Power
- 157
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 43
- October 1988 – October 1989
- Peak Five Years
- 102
- April 1986 – April 1991
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 38
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Sep 17, 1989
- Comebacks
- 3
- Sep 1989 · Mar 1991 · Sep 2002, after 11 quiet years
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
9 books · 157 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 Old Silent | #5 | 8 | 42.9 | ||
| The Old Contemptibles | #6 | 8 | 36.0 | ||
| The Five Bells and Bladebone | #8 | 7 | 23.2 | ||
| The Grave Maurice | #7 | 3 | 14.8 | ||
| The Old Wine Shades | #8 | 3 | 10.1 | ||
| The Blue Last | #11 | 3 | 8.9 | ||
| The Winds of Change | #11 | 3 | 8.0 | ||
| Dust | #10 | 2 | 7.8 | ||
| The Black Cat | #8 | 1 | 5.5 |
At their peak
1988 in books →Martha Grimes's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1988 to October 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy368
- 2Sidney Sheldon244
- 3Amy Tan240
- 4John le Carré232
- 5Salman Rushdie224
- 6Danielle Steel195
- 7Mary Higgins Clark187
- 8Frederick Forsyth158
- 9Anne Tyler151
- 10Martin Cruz Smith150
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.