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Rita Mae Brown portraitRita Mae Brown

Charting May 16, 1982 → Apr 22, 2012 · 19 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.07%
week of Jun 15, 1986
Career Power
38
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
13
June 1985 – June 1986
Peak Five Years
25
June 1981 – June 1986
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.16%
week of Jun 26, 1983
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

11 books · 38 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
High Hearts#12512.6
Sudden Death#12410.0
Catch as Cat Canwith Sneaky Pie Brown#812.8
The Tail of the Tip-Offwith Sneaky Pie Brown#1222.6
Sour Pusswith Sneaky Pie Brown#912.4
Southern Discomfort#1512.1
Whisker of Evilwith Sneaky Pie Brown#1411.2
Cat of the Centurywith Sneaky Pie Brown#1411.2
The Big Cat Napwith Sneaky Pie Brown#1411.2
Claws and Effectwith Sneaky Pie Brown#1511.0
The Purrfect Murderwith Sneaky Pie Brown#1610.9

At their peak

1985 in books →

Rita Mae Brown's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1985 to June 1986. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Garrison Keillor487
  2. 2Jean M. Auel343
  3. 3Stephen King291
  4. 4James A. Michener277
  5. 5Carl Sagan196
  6. 6Robert Ludlum195
  7. 7Danielle Steel181
  8. 8Ken Follett175
  9. 9Jackie Collins170
  10. 10Tom Clancy159

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.