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Payne Harrison

Charting Feb 19, 1989Mar 12, 1989 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.68%
week of Mar 12, 1989
Career Power
7
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
7
March 1988 – March 1989
Peak Five Years
7
March 1984 – March 1989
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Feb 19, 1989
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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
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At their peak

1988 in books

Payne Harrison's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1988 to March 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Clancy414
  2. 2Tom Wolfe306
  3. 3James A. Michener298
  4. 4Robert Ludlum268
  5. 5Danielle Steel265
  6. 6Gabriel Garcia Marquez240
  7. 7Sidney Sheldon221
  8. 8Rosamunde Pilcher182
  9. 9Anne Tyler175
  10. 10Anne Rice161

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.