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Peter Matthiessen

Charting Jun 15, 1975Apr 27, 2014 · 9 weeks with chart power

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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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Killing Mister Watson#11513.0
Far Tortuga#10312.5
In Paradise#914.8

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:

  1. 1Tom Clancy385
  2. 2Stephen King376
  3. 3Danielle Steel351
  4. 4Dr. Seuss293
  5. 5Rosamunde Pilcher211
  6. 6Robert Ludlum209
  7. 7Scott Turow185
  8. 8James A. Michener168
  9. 9P.D. James140
  10. 10Dean R. Koontz134

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.