Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Thomas Pynchon
Charting Apr 22, 1973 → Oct 26, 2025 · 31 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.80%
- week of Feb 25, 1990
- Career Power
- 194
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 88
- April 1989 – April 1990
- Peak Five Years
- 88
- April 1985 – April 1990
- Top-five weeks
- 9
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 31
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Feb 4, 1990
- Comebacks
- 2
- Jan 1990, after 16 quiet years · May 1997, after 7 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
7 books · 194 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vineland | #2 | 13 | 88.1 | ||
| Mason & Dixon | #4 | 8 | 54.4 | ||
| Gravity's Rainbow | #8 | 4 | 20.6 | ||
| Inherent Vice | #5 | 2 | 12.0 | ||
| Bleeding Edge | #6 | 2 | 9.7 | ||
| Shadow Ticket | #7 | 1 | 6.5 | ||
| Against the Day | #13 | 1 | 2.8 |
At their peak
1989 in books →Thomas Pynchon's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1989 to April 1990. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy373
- 2Danielle Steel285
- 3Amy Tan245
- 4John le Carré235
- 5Stephen King190
- 6Mary Higgins Clark187
- 7James A. Michener168
- 8Frederick Forsyth158
- 9Martin Cruz Smith150
- 10Ken Follett129
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.