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Raymond E. Feist portraitRaymond E. Feist

Charting Aug 20, 1989Apr 19, 2009 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.23%
week of Aug 20, 1989
Career Power
10
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
August 1988 – August 1989
Peak Five Years
4
April 1996 – March 2001
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of Aug 20, 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 →

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

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

5 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Prince of the Blood#1512.1
Rage of a Demon King#1512.1
KRONDOR: Tear of the Gods#1512.1
Wrath of a Mad God#1611.8
Rides a Dread Region#1611.8

At their peak

1988 in books

Raymond E. Feist's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1988 to August 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Clancy383
  2. 2Sidney Sheldon244
  3. 3Salman Rushdie224
  4. 4Danielle Steel211
  5. 5Anne Tyler209
  6. 6James A. Michener187
  7. 7Amy Tan168
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark164
  9. 9Anne Rice161
  10. 10John le Carré156

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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