Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Robert A. Heinlein
Charting Jun 27, 1982 → Aug 16, 1987 · 36 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.09%
- week of Oct 28, 1984
- Career Power
- 136
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 50
- November 1983 – November 1984
- Peak Five Years
- 126
- February 1981 – January 1986
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 36
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Sep 16, 1984
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 1984
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
4 books · 136 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOB: A Comedy of Justice | #6 | 11 | 49.7 | ||
| The Cat Who Walks Through Walls | #8 | 11 | 39.3 | ||
| Friday | #8 | 10 | 37.2 | ||
| To Sail Beyond the Sunset | #13 | 4 | 10.0 |
At their peak
1983 in books →Robert A. Heinlein's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1983 to November 1984. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Ludlum354
- 2Stephen King347
- 3Danielle Steel285
- 4Helen Hooven Santmyer251
- 5James A. Michener248
- 6Dr. Seuss222
- 7Umberto Eco196
- 8Gore Vidal194
- 9Leon Uris190
- 10Frederick Forsyth158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.