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Tom Clancy

Charting Mar 24, 1985 → Feb 16, 2014 · 432 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year: 1989

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
70 crowns
19852014
Longest reign 12 weeks (Aug–Oct 1988) · First crown Aug 1986

Peak Power: 12.16%; week of Jan 29, 1989
Career Power: 3,813; share-weeks
Crowns: 70; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 504; August 1986 – August 1987
Peak Five Years: 1,857; April 1985 – April 1990
Top-five weeks: 260; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 432; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.82%; week of Sep 1, 1996
Comebacks: 6; Sep 1991 · Sep 1993 · Sep 1996 · Sep 1998 · Oct 2000 · Sep 2002

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

18 books · 3,813 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
Red Storm Rising	#1August 1986	50	August 1986 – July 1987	500.1	496.5
The Cardinal of the Kremlin	#1August 1988	41	August 1988 – July 1989	426.2	426.2
Clear and Present Danger	#1September 1989	45	September 1989 – July 1990	414.1	414.1
Patriot Games	#1August 1987	38	August 1987 – April 1988	332.8	332.5
The Sum of All Fears	#1August 1991	29	August 1991 – March 1992	279.2	279.2
The Hunt for Red October	#2July 1985	29	March 1985 – October 1985	266.4	266.4
Without Remorse	#1August 1993	32	August 1993 – April 1994	265.7	258.6
Debt of Honor	#1September 1994	25	September 1994 – February 1995	253.5	252.5
Executive Orders	#1September 1996	24	September 1996 – February 1997	246.0	244.2
Rainbow Six	#1August 1998	25	August 1998 – February 1999	229.3	229.3
The Bear and the Dragon	#1September 2000	21	September 2000 – January 2001	183.2	183.2
Red Rabbit	#1August 2002	17	August 2002 – January 2003	141.2	141.2
The Teeth of the Tiger	#1August 2003	13	August 2003 – January 2004	97.0	96.9
Dead or Alivewith Grant Blackwood	#1December 2010	13	December 2010 – March 2011	59.9	119.7
Command Authoritywith Mark Greaney	#1December 2013	9	December 2013 – February 2014	35.3	70.4
Against All Enemieswith Peter Telep	#1July 2011	7	July 2011 – August 2011	29.2	58.4
Threat Vectorwith Mark Greaney	#1December 2012	7	December 2012 – February 2013	28.7	57.4
Locked Onwith Mark Greaney	#2January 2012	7	January 2012 – February 2012	25.4	50.5

At their peak

1986 in books →

Tom Clancy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1986 to August 1987. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.