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Sally Quinn

Charting Aug 24, 1986Oct 19, 1986 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.61%
week of Oct 12, 1986
Career Power
52
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
52
October 1985 – October 1986
Peak Five Years
52
November 1981 – October 1986
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Sep 7, 1986
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 · 52 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
Regrets Only#4951.8

At their peak

1985 in books

Sally Quinn's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1985 to October 1986. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Garrison Keillor409
  2. 2Jean M. Auel392
  3. 3Danielle Steel330
  4. 4Robert Ludlum306
  5. 5James A. Michener248
  6. 6Judith Krantz196
  7. 7John le Carré195
  8. 8Ken Follett184
  9. 9Louis L'Amour182
  10. 10Carl Sagan179

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.