Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Paul Theroux
Charting Mar 28, 1982 → Jul 23, 1989 · 10 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.31%
- week of May 16, 1982
- Career Power
- 36
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 32
- May 1981 – May 1982
- Peak Five Years
- 32
- February 1977 – May 1982
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 10
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Mar 28, 1982
- 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 · 36 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 Mosquito Coast | #7 | 8 | 32.0 | ||
| My Secret History | #15 | 2 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1981 in books →Paul Theroux's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1981 to May 1982. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Clavell468
- 2John Irving353
- 3Colleen McCullough351
- 4Martin Cruz Smith319
- 5Stephen King302
- 6Bette Bao Lord196
- 7Andrew M. Greeley194
- 8Lawrence Sanders171
- 9John Jakes170
- 10Harold Robbins143
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.