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Jane Smiley portraitJane Smiley

Charting Apr 26, 1992May 17, 2015 · 28 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Moo#51361.9
Some Luck#8414.9
Horse Heaven#12514.0
Ten Days in the Hills#1337.6
A Thousand Acres#1026.9
Early Warning#1014.2

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:

  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 decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.