Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Arthur Golden
Charting Nov 2, 1997 → Jan 31, 1999 · 62 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.80%
- week of Oct 18, 1998
- Career Power
- 289
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 259
- January 1998 – January 1999
- Peak Five Years
- 289
- February 1994 – January 1999
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 62
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Mar 22, 1998
- 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 · 289 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memoirs of a Geisha | #5 | 62 | 289.3 |
At their peak
1998 in books →Arthur Golden's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1998 to January 1999. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Danielle Steel270
- 2Arthur Golden259
- 3Charles Frazier228
- 4John Grisham224
- 5Tom Clancy222
- 6Wally Lamb202
- 7Mary Higgins Clark194
- 8Nicholas Sparks186
- 9Anne Rice176
- 10Toni Morrison175
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1990s.