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Tom Wolfe

Charting Nov 8, 1987 → Nov 25, 2012 · 92 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year: 1988

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
18 crowns
19872012
Longest reign 10 weeks (Nov 1998 – Jan 1999) · First crown Jan 1988

Peak Power: 12.24%; week of Apr 24, 1988
Career Power: 834; share-weeks
Crowns: 18; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 527; November 1987 – October 1988
Peak Five Years: 538; December 1983 – November 1988
Top-five weeks: 60; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 92; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Jan 24, 1988
Comebacks: 1; Dec 1998, after 10 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

4 books · 834 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
The Bonfire of the Vanities	#1January 1988	56	November 1987 – November 1988	537.7	537.3
A Man in Full	#1November 1998	19	November 1998 – March 1999	213.2	213.2
I Am Charlotte Simmons	#3November 2004	14	November 2004 – March 2005	66.7	66.7
Back to Blood	#4November 2012	3	November 2012 – November 2012	16.4	16.4

At their peak

1987 in books →

Tom Wolfe's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1987 to October 1988. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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