Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Anna Quindlen
Charting May 19, 1991 → Mar 15, 2026 · 63 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
19912026First crown Sep 2006
- Peak Power
- 7.76%
- week of Jun 14, 1998
- Career Power
- 402
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 1
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 157
- July 1997 – June 1998
- Peak Five Years
- 214
- December 1997 – December 2002
- Top-five weeks
- 26
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 63
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Sep 17, 2006
- Comebacks
- 3
- Oct 2002 · Sep 2006 · Mar 2014, after 7 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
11 books · 402 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black and Blue | #2 | 20 | 157.4 | ||
| Rise and Shine | #1 | 7 | 59.4 | ||
| Blessings | #3 | 9 | 56.8 | ||
| Still Life with Bread Crumbs | #3 | 7 | 51.6 | ||
| Miller's Valley | #6 | 4 | 23.3 | ||
| Every Last One | #5 | 4 | 21.2 | ||
| Object Lessons | #12 | 4 | 10.1 | ||
| One True Thing | #13 | 4 | 8.7 | ||
| Alternate Side | #13 | 2 | 5.2 | ||
| More Than Enough | #9 | 1 | 4.9 | ||
| After Annie | #11 | 1 | 3.7 |
At their peak
1997 in books →Anna Quindlen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1997 to June 1998. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Charles Frazier550
- 2Danielle Steel361
- 3John Grisham291
- 4Nicholas Sparks200
- 5Anne Rice178
- 6Toni Morrison175
- 7Anna Quindlen157
- 8Arthur Golden149
- 9Arundhati Roy145
- 10Nelson DeMille142
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.