Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Raymond Chandler
Charting Oct 23, 1949 → Nov 19, 1989 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.75%
- week of Nov 19, 1989
- Career Power
- 10
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 8
- November 1988 – November 1989
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- December 1984 – November 1989
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.40%
- week of Nov 5, 1989
- 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
2 books · 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poodle Springswith Robert B. Parker | #9 | 4 | 8.3 | ||
| The Little Sister | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1988 in books →Raymond Chandler's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1988 to November 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy370
- 2Amy Tan250
- 3John le Carré235
- 4Sidney Sheldon230
- 5Salman Rushdie224
- 6Danielle Steel208
- 7Mary Higgins Clark187
- 8Frederick Forsyth158
- 9Martin Cruz Smith150
- 10John Irving126
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.