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Anne Rivers Siddons

Charting Nov 6, 1988 → Jul 27, 2014 · 84 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.61%
week of Aug 24, 1997
Career Power
391
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
94
October 1996 – October 1997
Peak Five Years
164
August 1989 – August 1994
Top-five weeks
14
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
84
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Aug 16, 1992
Comebacks
3
Jun 1997 · Aug 2000 · Sep 2005, 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

13 books · 391 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
Up Island#41793.6
Colony#41267.9
Outer Banks#51158.2
Low Country#6938.6
NORA, Nora#6630.1
Sweetwater Creek#5527.3
Hill Towns#11721.2
Downtown#10516.3
Off Season#9415.1
Islands#9310.6
Peachtree Road#1436.6
Burnt Mountain#1213.2
The Girls of August#1312.8

At their peak

1996 in books →

Anne Rivers Siddons's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1996 to October 1997. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Danielle Steel347
  2. 2Nicholas Sparks340
  3. 3John Grisham330
  4. 4Patricia Cornwell243
  5. 5Jacquelyn Mitchard220
  6. 6Mary Higgins Clark212
  7. 7Nelson DeMille186
  8. 8Tom Clancy159
  9. 9Michael Crichton159
  10. 10Charles Frazier146

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.