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Robert Stone portraitRobert Stone

Charting Nov 22, 1981Jun 7, 1998 · 11 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.01%
week of Apr 19, 1992
Career Power
38
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
23
April 1991 – April 1992
Peak Five Years
23
May 1987 – April 1992
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Apr 5, 1992
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

3 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
Outerbridge Reach#8623.1
Damascus Gate#13410.3
A Flag for Sunrise#914.8

At their peak

1991 in books

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

  1. 1John Grisham431
  2. 2Alexandra Ripley330
  3. 3Tom Clancy279
  4. 4Dr. Seuss234
  5. 5Danielle Steel218
  6. 6Mary Higgins Clark207
  7. 7Stephen King203
  8. 8Amy Tan181
  9. 9Timothy Zahn170
  10. 10Sidney Sheldon152

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.