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Milan Kundera portraitMilan Kundera

Charting Jul 15, 1984Jul 21, 1991 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.10%
week of Jul 14, 1991
Career Power
31
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
29
July 1990 – July 1991
Peak Five Years
29
August 1986 – July 1991
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Jun 9, 1991
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

2 books · 31 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
Immortality#9829.0
The Unbearable Lightness of Being#1611.8

At their peak

1990 in books

Milan Kundera's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1990 to July 1991. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King349
  2. 2Jean M. Auel315
  3. 3Danielle Steel314
  4. 4Dr. Seuss245
  5. 5Scott Turow228
  6. 6Sidney Sheldon217
  7. 7John Grisham192
  8. 8Anne Rice161
  9. 9Dean R. Koontz147
  10. 10Mary Higgins Clark137

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.