Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Thomas Thompson
Charting Apr 25, 1982 → Aug 29, 1982 · 18 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.70%
- week of Jun 20, 1982
- Career Power
- 112
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 112
- September 1981 – August 1982
- Peak Five Years
- 112
- June 1977 – August 1982
- Top-five weeks
- 8
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 18
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of May 16, 1982
- 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 · 112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celebrity | #2 | 18 | 112.2 |
At their peak
1981 in books →Thomas Thompson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1981 to August 1982. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Irving368
- 2Colleen McCullough360
- 3Robert Ludlum329
- 4Stephen King313
- 5John Jakes276
- 6James Clavell254
- 7Bette Bao Lord210
- 8Andrew M. Greeley208
- 9Ken Follett170
- 10Lawrence Sanders158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.