Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Judith McNaught
Charting Jun 30, 1991 → Feb 19, 2006 · 42 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paradise | #5 | 13 | 68.5 | ||
| Someone to Watch Over Me | #3 | 6 | 46.3 | ||
| Every Breath You Take | #5 | 6 | 40.6 | ||
| Until You | #6 | 6 | 31.5 | ||
| Perfect | #6 | 6 | 25.6 | ||
| Remember When | #10 | 3 | 11.5 | ||
| Night Whispers | #14 | 2 | 4.2 |
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:
- 1Jean M. Auel315
- 2John Grisham301
- 3Stephen King252
- 4Dr. Seuss229
- 5Danielle Steel219
- 6Mary Higgins Clark201
- 7Sidney Sheldon176
- 8Timothy Zahn167
- 9Amy Tan161
- 10Anne Rice161
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.