Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Richard Bachman

Charting Mar 3, 1985 → Jul 29, 2007 · 44 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 crowns
19852007
Longest reign 4 weeks (Apr–May 1985) · First crown Apr 1985

Peak Power: 9.00%; week of May 19, 1985
Career Power: 307; share-weeks
Crowns: 4; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 191; August 1984 – August 1985
Peak Five Years: 191; August 1980 – August 1985
Top-five weeks: 16; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 44; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Apr 28, 1985
Comebacks: 1; Oct 1996, after 11 quiet years

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 · 307 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
Thinner	#1April 1985	25	March 1985 – August 1985	191.4	191.4
The Regulators	#2October 1996	14	October 1996 – January 1997	80.2	80.0
Blaze	#2July 2007	5	July 2007 – July 2007	35.6	35.5

At their peak

1984 in books →

Richard Bachman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1984 to August 1985. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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