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Janet Fitch portraitJanet Fitch

Charting May 23, 1999Sep 19, 1999 · 18 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
8.22%
week of Aug 1, 1999
Career Power
165
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
165
September 1998 – September 1999
Peak Five Years
165
October 1994 – September 1999
Top-five weeks
13
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
18
weeks with chart power
Dominance
13.09%
week of Jul 11, 1999
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

1 book · 165 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
White Oleander#218165.3

At their peak

1998 in books

Janet Fitch's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1998 to September 1999. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1J. K. Rowling396
  2. 2Stephen King311
  3. 3John Grisham254
  4. 4Danielle Steel241
  5. 5Tom Wolfe213
  6. 6Mary Higgins Clark183
  7. 7Barbara Kingsolver178
  8. 8Patricia Cornwell175
  9. 9Janet Fitch165
  10. 10Thomas Harris159

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.