Skip to content

Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Tony Hillerman

Charting Jul 10, 1988Jan 7, 2007 · 108 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Talking God#21599.1
Coyote Waits#31394.0
The First Eagle#21072.7
Sacred Clowns#31168.9
The Fallen Man#31054.0
The Sinister Pig#4745.8
A Thief of Time#71145.6
The Wailing Wind#5743.8
Hunting Badger#9938.2
The Shape Shifter#4522.8
Finding Moon#9619.8
Skeleton Man#7417.6

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:

  1. 1Tom Clancy397
  2. 2Sidney Sheldon244
  3. 3Salman Rushdie222
  4. 4Danielle Steel217
  5. 5Anne Tyler209
  6. 6James A. Michener200
  7. 7Anne Rice161
  8. 8Amy Tan157
  9. 9Mary Higgins Clark155
  10. 10Frederick Forsyth150

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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