Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Peter David
Charting Jul 26, 1992 → Jul 24, 1994 · 10 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.08%
- week of Aug 23, 1992
- Career Power
- 40
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 24
- September 1991 – August 1992
- Peak Five Years
- 40
- August 1989 – July 1994
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 10
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Jul 26, 1992
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 1994
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 · 40 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.
At their peak
1991 in books →Peter David's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1991 to August 1992. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Grisham438
- 2Alexandra Ripley348
- 3Stephen King290
- 4Danielle Steel269
- 5Tom Clancy265
- 6Dr. Seuss226
- 7Michael Crichton175
- 8Uncredited156
- 9Mary Higgins Clark153
- 10Sidney Sheldon152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1990s.