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Eugenia Price

Charting Jul 20, 1969May 25, 1997 · 28 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.36%
week of Jun 16, 1991
Career Power
114
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
30
July 1988 – July 1989
Peak Five Years
59
June 1986 – June 1991
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.53%
week of May 21, 1995
Comebacks
3
May 1989, after 19 quiet years · May 1991 · May 1995

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

6 books · 114 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
Stranger in Savannah#7830.0
New Moon Rising#9729.8
Bright Captivity#7628.6
Beauty from Ashes#7519.9
The Waiting Time#1113.6
Savannah#1412.4

At their peak

1988 in books

Eugenia Price's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1988 to July 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Clancy426
  2. 2James A. Michener283
  3. 3Danielle Steel275
  4. 4Sidney Sheldon244
  5. 5Anne Tyler209
  6. 6Salman Rushdie206
  7. 7Anne Rice161
  8. 8Judith Krantz154
  9. 9Tom Wolfe139
  10. 10Richard Bach126

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.