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Stephen Coonts

Charting Nov 2, 1986Sep 7, 2008 · 69 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.05%
week of Mar 22, 1987
Career Power
317
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
138
May 1986 – May 1987
Peak Five Years
272
December 1985 – December 1990
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
69
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Oct 23, 1988
Comebacks
1
Oct 1988

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

10 books · 317 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
Flight of the Intruder#728137.6
Final Flight#41683.7
The Minotaur#7626.5
Under Siege#8623.8
America#7419.7
Liberty#728.7
The Assassin#1237.4
The Red Horseman#1424.5
Cuba#1312.9
Hong Kong#1512.1

At their peak

1986 in books

Stephen Coonts's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1986 to May 1987. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King509
  2. 2Tom Clancy462
  3. 3Danielle Steel359
  4. 4Louis L'Amour206
  5. 5James Clavell202
  6. 6Pat Conroy200
  7. 7Sidney Sheldon194
  8. 8Robert Ludlum167
  9. 9Judith Krantz160
  10. 10John le Carré160

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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