Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Michael Korda
Charting Jul 25, 1982 → Apr 30, 1989 · 21 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.92%
- week of Apr 9, 1989
- Career Power
- 84
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 43
- May 1988 – April 1989
- Peak Five Years
- 82
- May 1984 – April 1989
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 21
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Mar 12, 1989
- Comebacks
- 1
- Mar 1989
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
3 books · 84 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 Fortune | #7 | 10 | 42.9 | ||
| Queenie | #8 | 10 | 39.2 | ||
| Worldly Goods | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
1988 in books →Michael Korda's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1988 to April 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy421
- 2Danielle Steel335
- 3James A. Michener298
- 4Sidney Sheldon244
- 5Gabriel Garcia Marquez223
- 6Tom Wolfe219
- 7Anne Tyler196
- 8Robert Ludlum166
- 9Anne Rice161
- 10Judith Krantz154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.