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Michael M. Thomas

Charting Aug 17, 1980Sep 21, 1980 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.16%
week of Sep 21, 1980
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
14
September 1979 – September 1980
Peak Five Years
14
July 1975 – September 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Sep 14, 1980
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 · 14 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
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At their peak

1979 in books

Michael M. Thomas's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1979 to September 1980. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Ludlum412
  2. 2Judith Krantz352
  3. 3Kurt Vonnegut296
  4. 4Ken Follett277
  5. 5Frederick Forsyth252
  6. 6Stephen King246
  7. 7John le Carré239
  8. 8Howard Fast215
  9. 9Belva Plain214
  10. 10William Styron195

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.