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Umberto Eco

Charting Jun 26, 1983 → Nov 27, 2011 · 73 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
5 crowns
19832011
Longest reign 5 weeks (Aug–Sep 1983) · First crown Aug 1983

Peak Power: 10.81%; week of Nov 6, 1983
Career Power: 592; share-weeks
Crowns: 5; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 443; May 1983 – May 1984
Peak Five Years: 443; May 1979 – May 1984
Top-five weeks: 42; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 73; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Aug 7, 1983
Comebacks: 1; Nov 1989, 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 · 592 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 Name of the Rose	#1August 1983	47	June 1983 – May 1984	442.5	442.3
Foucault's Pendulum	#3November 1989	17	October 1989 – February 1990	123.7	123.7
The Island of the Day Before	#11November 1995	6	November 1995 – January 1996	17.3	17.3
Baudolino	#14November 2002	2	November 2002 – November 2002	4.5	4.5
The Prague Cemetery	#10November 2011	1	November 2011	4.2	4.2

At their peak

1983 in books →

Umberto Eco's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1983 to May 1984. 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.