Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Wilbur Smith
Charting Mar 23, 1980 → Nov 9, 2014 · 27 weeks with chart power
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- Peak Power
- 2.23%
- week of May 18, 1980
- Career Power
- 102
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 35
- April 1980 – April 1981
- Peak Five Years
- 62
- February 1976 – May 1981
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 27
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Nov 9, 2014
- Comebacks
- 1
- Apr 1994, after 13 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
7 books · 102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hungry as the Sea | #7 | 10 | 34.8 | ||
| The Delta Decision | #7 | 6 | 27.2 | ||
| River God | #10 | 4 | 13.0 | ||
| Assegai | #9 | 3 | 9.6 | ||
| Desert God | #6 | 1 | 7.3 | ||
| The Quest | #10 | 2 | 6.6 | ||
| Those in Peril | #11 | 1 | 3.6 |
At their peak
1980 in books →Wilbur Smith's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1980 to April 1981. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James A. Michener354
- 2Sidney Sheldon353
- 3Stephen King340
- 4Ken Follett317
- 5Robert Ludlum285
- 6Cynthia Freeman248
- 7Belva Plain244
- 8Judith Krantz216
- 9Jeffrey Archer167
- 10E. L. Doctorow166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.