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Fannie Flagg portraitFannie Flagg

Charting Aug 25, 2002Nov 22, 2020 · 36 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.41%
week of Sep 29, 2002
Career Power
191
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
59
October 2001 – October 2002
Peak Five Years
140
September 2001 – September 2006
Top-five weeks
11
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
36
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Sep 8, 2002
Comebacks
2
Jan 2005 · Jul 2006

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 · 191 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
Standing in the Rainbow#3858.7
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven#3957.9
A Redbird Christmas#8823.6
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion#6416.6
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop#5213.1
I Still Dream About You#6212.1
The Whole Town's Talking#1039.2

At their peak

2001 in books

Fannie Flagg's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2001 to October 2002. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham357
  2. 2James Patterson213
  3. 3Jonathan Franzen207
  4. 4Mattie J.T. Stepanek191
  5. 5Danielle Steel186
  6. 6Alice Sebold159
  7. 7Stephen King146
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark135
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks125
  10. 10Emma McLaughlin118

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.