Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Sally Quinn
Charting Aug 24, 1986 → Oct 19, 1986 · 9 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regrets Only | #4 | 9 | 51.8 |
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:
- 1Garrison Keillor409
- 2Jean M. Auel392
- 3Danielle Steel330
- 4Robert Ludlum306
- 5James A. Michener248
- 6Judith Krantz196
- 7John le Carré195
- 8Ken Follett184
- 9Louis L'Amour182
- 10Carl Sagan179
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.