Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jane Smiley
Charting Apr 26, 1992 → May 17, 2015 · 28 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.81%
- week of May 28, 1995
- Career Power
- 109
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 62
- July 1994 – July 1995
- Peak Five Years
- 69
- July 1990 – July 1995
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 28
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.49%
- week of May 7, 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
6 books · 109 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moo | #5 | 13 | 61.9 | ||
| Some Luck | #8 | 4 | 14.9 | ||
| Horse Heaven | #12 | 5 | 14.0 | ||
| Ten Days in the Hills | #13 | 3 | 7.6 | ||
| A Thousand Acres | #10 | 2 | 6.9 | ||
| Early Warning | #10 | 1 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1994 in books →Jane Smiley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1994 to July 1995. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Redfield640
- 2James Finn Garner546
- 3Robert James Waller474
- 4John Grisham326
- 5Danielle Steel255
- 6Tom Clancy254
- 7Mary Higgins Clark202
- 8Stephen King185
- 9Anne Rice126
- 10Dr. Seuss117
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.