Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Dave Barry
Charting Oct 3, 1999 → Feb 24, 2013 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.60%
- week of Oct 31, 1999
- Career Power
- 29
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 19
- November 1998 – October 1999
- Peak Five Years
- 23
- October 1997 – October 2002
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.72%
- week of Oct 10, 1999
- 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
3 books · 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Trouble | #10 | 5 | 18.9 | ||
| Insane City | #12 | 2 | 5.9 | ||
| Tricky Business | #10 | 1 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1998 in books →Dave Barry's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1998 to October 1999. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J. K. Rowling581
- 2Stephen King301
- 3John Grisham254
- 4Danielle Steel244
- 5Tom Wolfe213
- 6Patricia Cornwell199
- 7Thomas Harris175
- 8Mary Higgins Clark174
- 9Barbara Kingsolver170
- 10Janet Fitch165
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.