Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Salman Rushdie
Charting Mar 5, 1989 → Mar 5, 2023 · 38 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 10.70%
- week of May 21, 1989
- Career Power
- 266
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 9
- weeks as the top author
- 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 (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Satanic Verses | #1 | 24 | 224.0 | ||
| The Moor's Last Sigh | #11 | 4 | 11.4 | ||
| Victory City | #7 | 2 | 8.4 | ||
| Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights | #9 | 2 | 7.2 | ||
| Shalimar the Clown | #12 | 2 | 5.9 | ||
| The Ground Beneath Her Feet | #14 | 1 | 2.4 | ||
| Fury | #14 | 1 | 2.4 | ||
| The Golden House | #15 | 1 | 2.1 | ||
| Quichotte | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |