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David Guterson portraitDavid Guterson

Charting May 9, 1999Jul 4, 1999 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.11%
week of Jun 20, 1999
Career Power
47
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
47
July 1998 – July 1999
Peak Five Years
47
July 1994 – July 1999
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of May 16, 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

1 book · 47 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
East of the Mountains#4947.3

At their peak

1998 in books

David Guterson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1998 to July 1999. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King281
  2. 2John Grisham232
  3. 3Tom Clancy229
  4. 4Danielle Steel228
  5. 5Tom Wolfe213
  6. 6Patricia Cornwell205
  7. 7J. K. Rowling194
  8. 8Wally Lamb187
  9. 9Barbara Kingsolver178
  10. 10Mary Higgins Clark176

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.