Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Tony Hillerman
Charting Jul 10, 1988 → Jan 7, 2007 · 108 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.85%
- week of Aug 6, 1989
- Career Power
- 622
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 105
- August 1988 – August 1989
- Peak Five Years
- 262
- January 1989 – December 1993
- Top-five weeks
- 32
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 108
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jul 2, 1989
- Comebacks
- 5
- Oct 1993 · Dec 1996 · Aug 1998 · Dec 1999 · Jun 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
12 books · 622 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talking God | #2 | 15 | 99.1 | ||
| Coyote Waits | #3 | 13 | 94.0 | ||
| The First Eagle | #2 | 10 | 72.7 | ||
| Sacred Clowns | #3 | 11 | 68.9 | ||
| The Fallen Man | #3 | 10 | 54.0 | ||
| The Sinister Pig | #4 | 7 | 45.8 | ||
| A Thief of Time | #7 | 11 | 45.6 | ||
| The Wailing Wind | #5 | 7 | 43.8 | ||
| Hunting Badger | #9 | 9 | 38.2 | ||
| The Shape Shifter | #4 | 5 | 22.8 | ||
| Finding Moon | #9 | 6 | 19.8 | ||
| Skeleton Man | #7 | 4 | 17.6 |
At their peak
1988 in books →Tony Hillerman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1988 to August 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy397
- 2Sidney Sheldon244
- 3Salman Rushdie222
- 4Danielle Steel217
- 5Anne Tyler209
- 6James A. Michener200
- 7Anne Rice161
- 8Amy Tan157
- 9Mary Higgins Clark155
- 10Frederick Forsyth150
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.