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Jacquelyn Mitchard portraitJacquelyn Mitchard

Charting Sep 22, 1996Apr 27, 2003 · 31 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    6 crowns

    19962003

    Longest reign 5 weeks (Oct–Nov 1996) · First crown Oct 1996

Peak Power
9.31%
week of Dec 15, 1996
Career Power
241
share-weeks
Crowns
6
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
237
April 1996 – April 1997
Peak Five Years
237
April 1992 – April 1997
Top-five weeks
13
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
31
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.78%
week of Oct 6, 1996
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

2 books · 241 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
The Deep End of the Ocean#129236.9
Twelve Times Blessed#1424.5

At their peak

1996 in books

Jacquelyn Mitchard's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1996 to April 1997. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Redfield401
  2. 2John Grisham332
  3. 3Tom Clancy246
  4. 4Patricia Cornwell243
  5. 5Jacquelyn Mitchard237
  6. 6Mary Higgins Clark218
  7. 7Danielle Steel197
  8. 8Terry McMillan183
  9. 9Shel Silverstein180
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks173

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s.