Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Shirley Conran
Charting Aug 29, 1982 → Nov 21, 1982 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.99%
- week of Oct 31, 1982
- Career Power
- 66
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 66
- November 1981 – November 1982
- Peak Five Years
- 66
- September 1977 – November 1982
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Sep 26, 1982
- 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 · 66 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lace | #6 | 13 | 66.5 |
At their peak
1981 in books →Shirley Conran's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1981 to November 1982. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Ludlum382
- 2Colleen McCullough294
- 3John Jakes284
- 4Stephen King268
- 5John Irving233
- 6Bette Bao Lord210
- 7Jeffrey Archer208
- 8Ken Follett206
- 9Stephen R. Donaldson165
- 10Danielle Steel153
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.