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Judith McNaught

Charting Jun 30, 1991Feb 19, 2006 · 42 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
4.05%
week of Sep 8, 1991
Career Power
228
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
69
September 1990 – September 1991
Peak Five Years
126
October 1989 – September 1994
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
42
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Mar 9, 2003
Comebacks
4
May 1993 · Sep 1994 · Mar 2003, after 8 quiet years · Jan 2006

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

7 books · 228 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
Paradise#51368.5
Someone to Watch Over Me#3646.3
Every Breath You Take#5640.6
Until You#6631.5
Perfect#6625.6
Remember When#10311.5
Night Whispers#1424.2

At their peak

1990 in books

Judith McNaught's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1990 to September 1991. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Jean M. Auel315
  2. 2John Grisham301
  3. 3Stephen King252
  4. 4Dr. Seuss229
  5. 5Danielle Steel219
  6. 6Mary Higgins Clark201
  7. 7Sidney Sheldon176
  8. 8Timothy Zahn167
  9. 9Amy Tan161
  10. 10Anne Rice161

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s.