Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Peter Matthiessen
Charting Jun 15, 1975 → Apr 27, 2014 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.15%
- week of Jul 13, 1975
- Career Power
- 30
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 13
- September 1989 – September 1990
- Peak Five Years
- 13
- September 1985 – September 1990
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Apr 27, 2014
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 books · 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Killing Mister Watson | #11 | 5 | 13.0 | ||
| Far Tortuga | #10 | 3 | 12.5 | ||
| In Paradise | #9 | 1 | 4.8 |
At their peak
1989 in books →Peter Matthiessen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1989 to September 1990. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy385
- 2Stephen King376
- 3Danielle Steel351
- 4Dr. Seuss293
- 5Rosamunde Pilcher211
- 6Robert Ludlum209
- 7Scott Turow185
- 8James A. Michener168
- 9P.D. James140
- 10Dean R. Koontz134
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.