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Charting Apr 26, 1998May 3, 1998 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.46%
week of May 3, 1998
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
May 1997 – May 1998
Peak Five Years
4
May 1993 – May 1998
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Apr 26, 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

1 book · 4 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.

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At their peak

1997 in books

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

  1. 1Charles Frazier514
  2. 2Danielle Steel378
  3. 3John Grisham348
  4. 4Nelson DeMille191
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks185
  6. 6Toni Morrison168
  7. 7Anne Rice161
  8. 8Arundhati Roy145
  9. 9Patricia Cornwell137
  10. 10James Patterson131

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.