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Helen Fielding portraitHelen Fielding

Charting Jun 21, 1998Nov 10, 2013 · 31 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.50%
week of Sep 6, 1998
Career Power
170
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
107
October 1997 – October 1998
Peak Five Years
145
May 1995 – May 2000
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
31
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Jun 28, 1998
Comebacks
1
Apr 2000

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

4 books · 170 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
Bridget Jones's Diary#317107.1
BRIDGET JONES: The Edge of Reason#7838.4
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination#10413.7
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy#7211.1

At their peak

1997 in books

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

  1. 1Charles Frazier425
  2. 2Danielle Steel306
  3. 3John Grisham224
  4. 4Arthur Golden224
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks191
  6. 6Wally Lamb181
  7. 7Anne Rice178
  8. 8Toni Morrison175
  9. 9Judy Blume161
  10. 10Anna Quindlen157

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.