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Thomas Fleming

Charting May 3, 1981Jun 7, 1981 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.50%
week of Jun 7, 1981
Career Power
6
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
6
June 1980 – June 1981
Peak Five Years
6
March 1976 – June 1981
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of May 3, 1981
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 · 6 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 Officers' Wives#1536.3

At their peak

1980 in books

Thomas Fleming's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1980 to June 1981. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James A. Michener424
  2. 2Sidney Sheldon353
  3. 3Stephen King340
  4. 4Ken Follett313
  5. 5Belva Plain201
  6. 6Cynthia Freeman200
  7. 7Kit Williams186
  8. 8Robert Ludlum169
  9. 9E. L. Doctorow166
  10. 10Taylor Caldwell161

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.