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Ray Bradbury portraitRay Bradbury

Charting Dec 28, 1980Jan 18, 1981 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.45%
week of Jan 18, 1981
Career Power
5
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
5
January 1980 – January 1981
Peak Five Years
5
November 1975 – January 1981
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Dec 28, 1980
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 · 5 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
The Stories of Ray Bradbury#1424.8

At their peak

1980 in books

Ray Bradbury's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1980 to January 1981. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Ludlum367
  2. 2Judith Krantz358
  3. 3Ken Follett302
  4. 4Sidney Sheldon299
  5. 5Stephen King297
  6. 6Frederick Forsyth252
  7. 7Cynthia Freeman248
  8. 8Belva Plain244
  9. 9John le Carré188
  10. 10James A. Michener180

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.