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! by Fannie Flagg

Charting Oct 11, 1998Jan 10, 1999 · 11 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.98%
week of Nov 29, 1998
Career Power
46
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
46
January 1998 – January 1999
Peak Five Years
46
January 1994 – January 1999
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Nov 1, 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 · 46 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
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl#41146.3

At their peak

1998 in books

! by Fannie Flagg's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1998 to January 1999. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Danielle Steel278
  2. 2Arthur Golden256
  3. 3Charles Frazier242
  4. 4John Grisham224
  5. 5Tom Clancy218
  6. 6Wally Lamb202
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark194
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks184
  9. 9Anne Rice176
  10. 10Toni Morrison175

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.