Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Arundhati Roy
Charting Aug 17, 1997 → Jul 16, 2017 · 35 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.66%
- week of Feb 8, 1998
- Career Power
- 160
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 145
- March 1997 – March 1998
- Peak Five Years
- 145
- April 1993 – March 1998
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 35
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Sep 7, 1997
- 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 · 160 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The God of Small Things | #5 | 31 | 144.7 | ||
| The Ministry of Utmost Happiness | #7 | 4 | 15.5 |
At their peak
1997 in books →Arundhati Roy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1997 to March 1998. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Charles Frazier463
- 2Danielle Steel374
- 3John Grisham357
- 4Nicholas Sparks214
- 5Nelson DeMille191
- 6Patricia Cornwell150
- 7Arundhati Roy145
- 8Mary Higgins Clark138
- 9James Patterson131
- 10David Baldacci124
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.