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Sue Miller

Charting May 18, 1986Mar 9, 2008 · 50 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.09%
week of Aug 31, 1986
Career Power
200
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
104
November 1985 – October 1986
Peak Five Years
138
July 1985 – July 1990
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
50
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Jun 8, 1986
Comebacks
2
Jun 1990 · Feb 2008, after 17 quiet years

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

5 books · 200 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
The Good Mother#424103.6
Family Pictures#8934.8
The Senator's Wife#7734.8
While I Was Gone#11616.2
For Love#9411.1

At their peak

1985 in books

Sue Miller's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1985 to October 1986. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Garrison Keillor396
  2. 2Jean M. Auel392
  3. 3Danielle Steel329
  4. 4Robert Ludlum306
  5. 5James A. Michener233
  6. 6Judith Krantz196
  7. 7John le Carré195
  8. 8Louis L'Amour185
  9. 9Ken Follett184
  10. 10Tom Clancy172

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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