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Oriana Fallaci portraitOriana Fallaci

Charting Dec 28, 1980Mar 15, 1981 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.51%
week of Mar 15, 1981
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
9
March 1980 – March 1981
Peak Five Years
9
December 1975 – March 1981
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Jan 11, 1981
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 · 9 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.

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At their peak

1980 in books

Oriana Fallaci's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1980 to March 1981. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Ludlum344
  2. 2Sidney Sheldon340
  3. 3Stephen King332
  4. 4Ken Follett314
  5. 5James A. Michener296
  6. 6Judith Krantz267
  7. 7Cynthia Freeman262
  8. 8Belva Plain244
  9. 9Frederick Forsyth169
  10. 10Jeffrey Archer167

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.