Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Paul Erdman
Charting Aug 30, 1981 → Mar 13, 1988 · 31 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.14%
- week of Mar 29, 1987
- Career Power
- 147
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 78
- January 1981 – January 1982
- Peak Five Years
- 78
- October 1976 – January 1982
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 31
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.51%
- week of Mar 8, 1987
- Comebacks
- 1
- Feb 1987, after 5 quiet years
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
3 books · 147 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Last Days of America | #6 | 17 | 78.1 | ||
| The Panic of '89 | #6 | 13 | 67.0 | ||
| The Palace | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1981 in books →Paul Erdman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1981 to January 1982. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Clavell421
- 2Martin Cruz Smith358
- 3Stephen King351
- 4James A. Michener314
- 5Kit Williams242
- 6John Irving211
- 7Cynthia Freeman171
- 8Lawrence Sanders168
- 9Colleen McCullough153
- 10Taylor Caldwell149
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.