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James Finn Garner

Charting Jun 26, 1994Jan 14, 1996 · 78 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    6 crowns

    19941996

    Longest reign 6 weeks (Dec 1994 – Jan 1995) · First crown Dec 1994

Peak Power
12.16%
week of Feb 26, 1995
Career Power
678
share-weeks
Crowns
6
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
546
July 1994 – July 1995
Peak Five Years
678
January 1991 – January 1996
Top-five weeks
48
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
78
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.74%
week of Jan 8, 1995
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

3 books · 678 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
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories#165552.7
Politically Correct Holiday Stories#41379.0
Once Upon a More Enlightened Time#71446.1

At their peak

1994 in books

James Finn Garner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1994 to July 1995. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Redfield640
  2. 2James Finn Garner546
  3. 3Robert James Waller474
  4. 4John Grisham326
  5. 5Danielle Steel255
  6. 6Tom Clancy254
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark202
  8. 8Stephen King185
  9. 9Anne Rice126
  10. 10Dr. Seuss117

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.