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John Darnton

Charting May 5, 1996Jun 9, 1996 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.93%
week of Jun 9, 1996
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
24
June 1995 – June 1996
Peak Five Years
24
June 1991 – June 1996
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of May 5, 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

1 book · 24 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
Neanderthal#7624.5

At their peak

1995 in books

John Darnton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1995 to June 1996. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Redfield395
  2. 2Danielle Steel342
  3. 3Nicholas Evans327
  4. 4Mary Higgins Clark292
  5. 5Michael Crichton230
  6. 6Anonymous201
  7. 7John Grisham179
  8. 8Pat Conroy179
  9. 9Richard Paul Evans165
  10. 10James Finn Garner161

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.