Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Barbara Delinsky
Charting Aug 9, 1998 → Jul 7, 2013 · 40 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.24%
- week of Sep 16, 2001
- Career Power
- 162
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 52
- August 2001 – August 2002
- Peak Five Years
- 129
- July 1998 – July 2003
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 40
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Aug 19, 2001
- 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
14 books · 162 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 Woman Next Door | #4 | 6 | 40.5 | ||
| Lake News | #8 | 6 | 20.9 | ||
| The Vineyard | #8 | 5 | 20.4 | ||
| Flirting with Pete | #4 | 3 | 19.6 | ||
| Coast Road | #13 | 5 | 12.7 | ||
| Family Tree | #12 | 5 | 12.3 | ||
| An Accidental Woman | #6 | 2 | 11.4 | ||
| The Summer I Dared | #8 | 1 | 5.7 | ||
| The Secret Between Us | #12 | 2 | 5.3 | ||
| Escape | #11 | 1 | 3.6 | ||
| COMMITMENTs | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| While My Sister Sleeps | #14 | 1 | 2.4 | ||
| Sweet Salt Air | #15 | 1 | 2.1 | ||
| Not My Daughter | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
2001 in books →Barbara Delinsky's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2001 to August 2002. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Grisham357
- 2James Patterson278
- 3Jonathan Franzen227
- 4Danielle Steel186
- 5Mattie J.T. Stepanek181
- 6Stephen King146
- 7Mary Higgins Clark135
- 8Clive Cussler121
- 9Jean M. Auel116
- 10Nicholas Sparks112
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.