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Charting Mar 5, 1989 → Mar 5, 2023 · 38 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    9 crowns

    19892023

    Longest reign 9 weeks (Mar–May 1989) · First crown Mar 1989

Peak Power
10.70%
week of May 21, 1989
Career Power
266
share-weeks
Crowns
9
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
224
August 1988 – August 1989
Peak Five Years
224
September 1984 – August 1989
Top-five weeks
13
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
38
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Mar 26, 1989
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

9 books · 266 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 Satanic Verses#124224.0
The Moor's Last Sigh#11411.4
Victory City#728.4
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights#927.2
Shalimar the Clown#1225.9
The Ground Beneath Her Feet#1412.4
Fury#1412.4
The Golden House#1512.1
Quichotte#1512.1

At their peak

1988 in books →

Salman Rushdie's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1988 to August 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Clancy383
  2. 2Sidney Sheldon244
  3. 3Salman Rushdie224
  4. 4Danielle Steel211
  5. 5Anne Tyler209
  6. 6James A. Michener187
  7. 7Amy Tan168
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark164
  9. 9Anne Rice161
  10. 10John le Carré156

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.