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Susan Isaacs

Charting Feb 12, 1984Oct 24, 2004 · 57 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.48%
week of Apr 15, 1984
Career Power
278
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
106
June 1983 – May 1984
Peak Five Years
136
October 1983 – October 1988
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
57
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Mar 18, 1984
Comebacks
4
Oct 1988 · Mar 1991 · Aug 1993 · Aug 1996

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 · 278 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
Almost Paradise#316105.8
Magic Hour#41160.3
Lily White#81038.9
Shining Through#9829.9
After All These Years#8725.9
Long Time No See#9415.1
Any Place I Hang My Hat#1611.8

At their peak

1983 in books

Susan Isaacs's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1983 to May 1984. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King507
  2. 2Umberto Eco443
  3. 3James A. Michener414
  4. 4Joan D. Vinge265
  5. 5Danielle Steel235
  6. 6John le Carré183
  7. 7Jackie Collins180
  8. 8Robert Ludlum174
  9. 9Bill Adler143
  10. 10Thomas Chastain143

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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