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Timothy Zahn portraitTimothy Zahn

Charting May 26, 1991 → May 16, 2021 · 64 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    19912021

    First crown Jun 1991

Peak Power
8.13%
week of Aug 18, 1991
Career Power
461
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
170
October 1990 – September 1991
Peak Five Years
360
July 1988 – July 1993
Top-five weeks
27
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
64
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jun 30, 1991
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

12 books · 461 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
Heir to the Empire#119170.0
Dark Force Rising#215108.9
The Last Command#31280.7
Thrawn#2325.5
Thrawn: Alliances#1221.8
Outbound Flight#7418.0
Thrawn: Treason#518.3
Survivor's Quest#927.3
Allegiance#1027.0
Vision of the Future#1324.8
Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising#914.8
Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good#1014.2

At their peak

1990 in books →

Timothy Zahn's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1990 to September 1991. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Jean M. Auel315
  2. 2John Grisham310
  3. 3Stephen King234
  4. 4Dr. Seuss227
  5. 5Danielle Steel214
  6. 6Mary Higgins Clark205
  7. 7Sidney Sheldon176
  8. 8Timothy Zahn170
  9. 9Amy Tan168
  10. 10Anne Rice161

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.