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Scott Turow

Charting Jun 28, 1987 → Feb 16, 2025 · 163 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
19 crowns
19872025
Longest reign 11 weeks (Jun–Aug 1990) · First crown Jul 1987

Peak Power: 12.03%; week of Nov 8, 1987
Career Power: 1,249; share-weeks
Crowns: 19; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 462; May 1987 – April 1988
Peak Five Years: 777; February 1986 – February 1991
Top-five weeks: 75; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 163; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.62%; week of Jul 26, 1987
Comebacks: 3; Jul 1990 · Jun 1993 · Jan 1997

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

13 books · 1,249 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
Presumed Innocent	#1July 1987	44	June 1987 – April 1988	462.4	461.8
The Burden of Proof	#1June 1990	35	June 1990 – February 1991	314.9	313.4
Pleading Guilty	#2June 1993	16	June 1993 – September 1993	128.8	128.8
The Laws of Our Fathers	#2November 1996	14	November 1996 – February 1997	81.3	81.3
Personal Injuries	#4October 1999	15	October 1999 – January 2000	78.8	70.3
Innocent	#3May 2010	7	May 2010 – July 2010	47.7	47.7
Reversible Errors	#6November 2002	10	November 2002 – January 2003	43.4	43.4
Identical	#4November 2013	6	November 2013 – December 2013	28.7	28.7
Testimony	#6June 2017	5	June 2017 – July 2017	22.6	22.6
Ordinary Heroes	#7November 2005	4	November 2005 – December 2005	15.0	15.0
The Last Trial	#8May 2020	3	May 2020 – June 2020	12.4	12.4
Presumed Guilty	#13February 2025	3	February 2025 – February 2025	8.2	7.6
Suspect	#9October 2022	1	October 2022	4.8	4.8

At their peak

1987 in books →

Scott Turow's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1987 to April 1988. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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