Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mona Simpson
Charting Mar 8, 1987 → May 10, 1987 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.50%
- week of Mar 29, 1987
- Career Power
- 7
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 7
- May 1986 – May 1987
- Peak Five Years
- 7
- May 1982 – May 1987
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.23%
- week of Mar 29, 1987
- 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 · 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anywhere but Here | #12 | 3 | 7.2 |
At their peak
1986 in books →Mona Simpson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1986 to May 1987. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephen King509
- 2Tom Clancy462
- 3Danielle Steel359
- 4Louis L'Amour206
- 5James Clavell202
- 6Pat Conroy200
- 7Sidney Sheldon194
- 8Robert Ludlum167
- 9Judith Krantz160
- 10John le Carré160
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.