Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Thomas Flanagan
Charting Jan 24, 1988 → Mar 27, 1988 · 10 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.28%
- week of Mar 13, 1988
- Career Power
- 47
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 47
- April 1987 – March 1988
- Peak Five Years
- 47
- April 1983 – March 1988
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 10
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Mar 6, 1988
- 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 · 47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Tenants of Time | #4 | 10 | 47.3 |
At their peak
1987 in books →Thomas Flanagan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1987 to March 1988. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephen King582
- 2Danielle Steel482
- 3Scott Turow444
- 4Tom Clancy397
- 5Tom Wolfe257
- 6Sidney Sheldon201
- 7Louis L'Amour188
- 8Garrison Keillor175
- 9John Jakes133
- 10Edward Rutherfurd133
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.