Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Gary Larson
Charting May 24, 1998 → May 24, 1998 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.30%
- week of May 24, 1998
- Career Power
- 3
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 3
- June 1997 – May 1998
- Peak Five Years
- 3
- June 1993 – May 1998
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of May 24, 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 · 3 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| There's a Hair in My Dirt | #13 | 1 | 2.8 |
At their peak
1997 in books →Gary Larson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1997 to May 1998. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Charles Frazier529
- 2Danielle Steel375
- 3John Grisham331
- 4Nelson DeMille191
- 5Nicholas Sparks190
- 6Anne Rice175
- 7Toni Morrison175
- 8Arundhati Roy145
- 9Patricia Cornwell137
- 10Arthur Golden132
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1990s.