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Peter David portraitPeter David

Charting Jul 26, 1992Jul 24, 1994 · 10 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Imzadi#7524.3
Q-Squared#9516.0

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:

  1. 1John Grisham438
  2. 2Alexandra Ripley348
  3. 3Stephen King290
  4. 4Danielle Steel269
  5. 5Tom Clancy265
  6. 6Dr. Seuss226
  7. 7Michael Crichton175
  8. 8Uncredited156
  9. 9Mary Higgins Clark153
  10. 10Sidney Sheldon152

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.