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Roger Stern portraitRoger Stern

Charting Sep 12, 1993Oct 10, 1993 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.45%
week of Oct 10, 1993
Career Power
17
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
17
October 1992 – October 1993
Peak Five Years
17
October 1988 – October 1993
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Sep 19, 1993
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

1 book · 17 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
The Death and Life of Superman#9516.9

At their peak

1992 in books

Roger Stern's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1992 to October 1993. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert James Waller610
  2. 2John Grisham476
  3. 3Nick Bantock273
  4. 4Danielle Steel224
  5. 5Laura Esquivel203
  6. 6Stephen King195
  7. 7Anne Rice183
  8. 8Sidney Sheldon129
  9. 9Scott Turow129
  10. 10James A. Michener104

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.