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Patrick F. McManus portraitPatrick F. McManus

Charting Nov 8, 1987Jan 10, 1988 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.53%
week of Dec 27, 1987
Career Power
22
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
22
January 1987 – January 1988
Peak Five Years
22
January 1983 – January 1988
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.18%
week of Dec 20, 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 · 22 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
Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs#12922.5

At their peak

1987 in books

Patrick F. McManus's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1987 to January 1988. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King647
  2. 2Tom Clancy458
  3. 3Danielle Steel423
  4. 4Scott Turow327
  5. 5Sidney Sheldon319
  6. 6Louis L'Amour188
  7. 7Garrison Keillor153
  8. 8Pat Conroy141
  9. 9Edward Rutherfurd125
  10. 10Mary Higgins Clark122

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.