Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Philip Caputo
Charting Jan 11, 1981 → Jan 11, 1981 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.23%
- week of Jan 11, 1981
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- January 1980 – January 1981
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- October 1975 – January 1981
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Jan 11, 1981
- 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 · 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horn of Africa | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1980 in books →Philip Caputo's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1980 to January 1981. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Ludlum367
- 2Judith Krantz358
- 3Ken Follett302
- 4Sidney Sheldon293
- 5Stephen King289
- 6Frederick Forsyth252
- 7Cynthia Freeman246
- 8Belva Plain244
- 9John le Carré203
- 10Jeffrey Archer167
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.