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Annie Dillard

Charting May 17, 1992Aug 19, 2007 · 8 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.80%
week of Jun 28, 1992
Career Power
25
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
23
July 1991 – June 1992
Peak Five Years
23
July 1987 – June 1992
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Jun 14, 1992
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

2 books · 25 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
The Living#9722.9
The Maytrees#1512.1

At their peak

1991 in books

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

  1. 1John Grisham438
  2. 2Alexandra Ripley348
  3. 3Tom Clancy279
  4. 4Dr. Seuss233
  5. 5Danielle Steel231
  6. 6Stephen King203
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark196
  8. 8Michael Crichton170
  9. 9Amy Tan170
  10. 10Uncredited156

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s.