Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Robertson Davies
Charting Mar 28, 1971 → Apr 2, 1995 · 26 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.53%
- week of Feb 26, 1989
- Career Power
- 87
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 35
- March 1988 – March 1989
- Peak Five Years
- 66
- March 1984 – March 1989
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 26
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Feb 12, 1989
- Comebacks
- 2
- Jan 1989 · Apr 1995, after 6 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
4 books · 87 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 Lyre of Orpheus | #8 | 9 | 35.3 | ||
| What's Bred in the Bone | #10 | 10 | 30.9 | ||
| The Cunning Man | #10 | 5 | 12.8 | ||
| Fifth Business | #10 | 2 | 8.3 |
At their peak
1988 in books →Robertson Davies's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1988 to March 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy414
- 2Tom Wolfe306
- 3James A. Michener298
- 4Robert Ludlum268
- 5Danielle Steel265
- 6Gabriel Garcia Marquez240
- 7Sidney Sheldon221
- 8Rosamunde Pilcher182
- 9Anne Tyler175
- 10Anne Rice161
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.