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Alexandra Ripley portraitAlexandra Ripley

Charting Oct 13, 1991May 31, 1992 · 34 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    16 crowns

    19911992

    Longest reign 16 weeks (Oct 1991 – Jan 1992) · First crown Oct 1991

Peak Power
12.36%
week of Feb 16, 1992
Career Power
348
share-weeks
Crowns
16
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
348
June 1991 – May 1992
Peak Five Years
348
June 1987 – May 1992
Top-five weeks
22
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
34
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Oct 13, 1991
Comebacks
0
none detected

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

1 book · 348 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
Scarlett#134348.0

At their peak

1991 in books

Alexandra Ripley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1991 to May 1992. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham439
  2. 2Alexandra Ripley348
  3. 3Tom Clancy279
  4. 4Dr. Seuss226
  5. 5Mary Higgins Clark218
  6. 6Danielle Steel206
  7. 7Stephen King203
  8. 8Amy Tan181
  9. 9Michael Crichton161
  10. 10Timothy Zahn159

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.