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Michael Ende

Charting Dec 4, 1983Feb 26, 1984 · 12 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.48%
week of Feb 12, 1984
Career Power
39
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
39
March 1983 – February 1984
Peak Five Years
39
March 1979 – February 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Jan 22, 1984
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 · 39 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
The Neverending Story#91239.3

At their peak

1983 in books

Michael Ende's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1983 to February 1984. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King501
  2. 2James A. Michener443
  3. 3Umberto Eco395
  4. 4John le Carré343
  5. 5Joan D. Vinge265
  6. 6Danielle Steel215
  7. 7Jackie Collins180
  8. 8Stephen R. Donaldson169
  9. 9Nora Ephron158
  10. 10Judith Rossner139

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.