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Robert Harris portraitRobert Harris

Charting Jul 5, 1992Feb 11, 2018 · 30 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.65%
week of Sep 13, 1992
Career Power
114
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
55
September 1991 – September 1992
Peak Five Years
57
December 1990 – December 1995
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
30
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Aug 30, 1992
Comebacks
1
Jan 2004, 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

8 books · 114 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
Fatherland#51154.9
Pompeii#10821.4
An Officer and a Spy#8312.7
Imperium#729.5
Munich#1126.0
The Fear Index#1225.3
Enigma#1512.1
Dictator#1512.1

At their peak

1991 in books

Robert Harris's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1991 to September 1992. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham443
  2. 2Alexandra Ripley348
  3. 3Stephen King345
  4. 4Danielle Steel271
  5. 5Dr. Seuss215
  6. 6Tom Clancy207
  7. 7Michael Crichton175
  8. 8Terry McMillan163
  9. 9Uncredited156
  10. 10Ken Follett135

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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