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Michael Korda

Charting Jul 25, 1982Apr 30, 1989 · 21 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Fortune#71042.9
Queenie#81039.2
Worldly Goods#1412.4

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:

  1. 1Tom Clancy421
  2. 2Danielle Steel335
  3. 3James A. Michener298
  4. 4Sidney Sheldon244
  5. 5Gabriel Garcia Marquez223
  6. 6Tom Wolfe219
  7. 7Anne Tyler196
  8. 8Robert Ludlum166
  9. 9Anne Rice161
  10. 10Judith Krantz154

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.