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Tom Robbins portraitTom Robbins

Charting Dec 16, 1984Jun 8, 2003 · 33 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.21%
week of Jun 10, 1990
Career Power
135
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
75
August 1989 – July 1990
Peak Five Years
83
October 1989 – October 1994
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
33
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Apr 29, 1990
Comebacks
1
Apr 1990, after 5 quiet years

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

5 books · 135 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
Skinny Legs and All#41575.1
Jitterbug Perfume#71143.5
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas#1137.8
Villa Incognito#1324.6
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates#1424.4

At their peak

1989 in books

Tom Robbins's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1989 to July 1990. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Clancy414
  2. 2Stephen King327
  3. 3Danielle Steel284
  4. 4Dr. Seuss256
  5. 5Robert Ludlum190
  6. 6James A. Michener168
  7. 7Rosamunde Pilcher167
  8. 8P.D. James140
  9. 9Dean R. Koontz134
  10. 10Ken Follett129

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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