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Stephen R. Donaldson portraitStephen R. Donaldson

Charting May 2, 1982Nov 3, 2013 · 54 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
7.52%
week of Jun 26, 1983
Career Power
357
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
201
May 1982 – April 1983
Peak Five Years
342
December 1981 – December 1986
Top-five weeks
23
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
54
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of May 9, 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

7 books · 357 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
White Gold Wielder#223168.7
The One Tree#221164.7
The Mirror of Her Dreams#1448.7
A Man Rides Through#1237.7
Fatal Revenant#1213.2
Against All Things Ending#1512.1
The Last Dark#1512.1

At their peak

1982 in books

Stephen R. Donaldson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1982 to April 1983. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James A. Michener386
  2. 2Sidney Sheldon329
  3. 3Robert Ludlum318
  4. 4Jean M. Auel290
  5. 5Stephen King255
  6. 6William Kotzwinkle235
  7. 7Arthur C. Clarke222
  8. 8Judith Krantz212
  9. 9Jeffrey Archer208
  10. 10Ken Follett206

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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