Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Robert Moss
Charting Jun 15, 1980 → Mar 17, 1985 · 40 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.86%
- week of Sep 21, 1980
- Career Power
- 132
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 78
- November 1979 – November 1980
- Peak Five Years
- 132
- March 1980 – March 1985
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 40
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Feb 17, 1985
- Comebacks
- 1
- Feb 1985
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 · 132 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Spikewith Arnaud de Borchgrave | #2 | 21 | 78.4 | ||
| Moscow Rules | #6 | 6 | 30.5 | ||
| Monimbowith Arnaud de Borchgrave | #9 | 12 | 20.9 | ||
| Death Beam | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1979 in books →Robert Moss's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1979 to November 1980. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Ludlum390
- 2Judith Krantz358
- 3Ken Follett296
- 4Stephen King254
- 5Frederick Forsyth252
- 6Belva Plain240
- 7John le Carré239
- 8Sidney Sheldon234
- 9Kurt Vonnegut218
- 10Howard Fast175
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.