Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Walker Percy
Charting Jun 6, 1971 → Jun 7, 1987 · 23 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.92%
- week of Jun 7, 1987
- Career Power
- 99
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 42
- June 1986 – June 1987
- Peak Five Years
- 42
- June 1982 – June 1987
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 23
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.37%
- week of May 3, 1987
- Comebacks
- 2
- Aug 1980, after 9 quiet years · Apr 1987, after 6 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
3 books · 99 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 Thanatos Syndrome | #7 | 9 | 41.6 | ||
| Love in the Ruins | #8 | 7 | 31.8 | ||
| The Second Coming | #10 | 7 | 26.0 |
At their peak
1986 in books →Walker Percy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1986 to June 1987. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephen King550
- 2Tom Clancy480
- 3Danielle Steel412
- 4Louis L'Amour258
- 5Sidney Sheldon234
- 6Pat Conroy207
- 7James Clavell202
- 8Jeffrey Archer155
- 9Jackie Collins139
- 10Stephen Coonts138
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.