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Elizabeth Berg portraitElizabeth Berg

Charting Sep 10, 2000May 3, 2015 · 16 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.37%
week of Oct 29, 2000
Career Power
96
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
79
November 1999 – November 2000
Peak Five Years
84
April 2000 – April 2005
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Sep 17, 2000
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

7 books · 96 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
Open House#31079.5
The Year of Pleasures#1014.2
Tapestry of Fortunes#1213.2
The Dream Lover#1312.8
Home Safe#1412.4
Dream When You’Re Feeling Blue#1512.1
We Are All Welcome Here#1611.8

At their peak

1999 in books

Elizabeth Berg's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1999 to November 2000. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1J. K. Rowling874
  2. 2Danielle Steel281
  3. 3John Grisham280
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks166
  5. 5James Patterson156
  6. 6Michael Crichton122
  7. 7Tom Clancy120
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark115
  9. 9Nelson DeMille101
  10. 10Robert Morgan101

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.