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Charles Frazier

Charting Jul 13, 1997Apr 29, 2018 · 75 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    18 crowns

    19972018

    Longest reign 8 weeks (Dec 1997 – Jan 1998) · First crown Aug 1997

Peak Power
13.63%
week of Jan 25, 1998
Career Power
646
share-weeks
Crowns
18
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
555
July 1997 – July 1998
Peak Five Years
584
September 1993 – September 1998
Top-five weeks
41
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
75
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.91%
week of Jan 4, 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

4 books · 646 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
Cold Mountain#161583.7
Thirteen Moons#2949.0
Varina#1026.9
Nightwoods#1336.7

At their peak

1997 in books

Charles Frazier's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1997 to July 1998. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Charles Frazier555
  2. 2Danielle Steel375
  3. 3John Grisham283
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks198
  5. 5Anne Rice178
  6. 6Toni Morrison175
  7. 7Anna Quindlen157
  8. 8Arthur Golden152
  9. 9Arundhati Roy145
  10. 10Patricia Cornwell137

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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