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Isabel Allende portraitIsabel Allende

Charting Jun 16, 1985 → Feb 13, 2022 · 40 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.56%
week of Apr 30, 2000
Career Power
176
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
91
May 1999 – May 2000
Peak Five Years
93
November 1996 – November 2001
Top-five weeks
9
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
40
weeks with chart power
Dominance
10.44%
week of Mar 12, 2000
Comebacks
1
Mar 2020, after 20 quiet years

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

13 books · 176 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
Daughter of Fortune#41390.6
A Long Petal of the Sea#8626.2
Zorro#12410.7
The Stories of Eva Luna#1249.4
Island Beneath the Sea#1337.0
The House of the Spirits#926.9
In the Midst of Winter#1026.3
Violeta#815.5
The Japanese Lover#914.8
Portrait in Sepia#1412.4
InÉS of My Soul#1412.4
Maya's Notebook#1512.1
Ripper#1512.1

At their peak

1999 in books →

Isabel Allende's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1999 to May 2000. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1J. K. Rowling1,234
  2. 2John Grisham266
  3. 3Danielle Steel245
  4. 4Thomas Harris177
  5. 5Stephen King176
  6. 6Janet Fitch154
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks132
  8. 8Michael Crichton122
  9. 9Mary Higgins Clark107
  10. 10Nelson DeMille101

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.