Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Judith Michael
Charting May 30, 1982 → Feb 27, 2005 · 66 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.18%
- week of Apr 1, 1990
- Career Power
- 305
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 85
- July 1987 – July 1988
- Peak Five Years
- 204
- April 1985 – April 1990
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 66
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Feb 11, 1990
- Comebacks
- 4
- Mar 1986 · Apr 1988 · Feb 1990 · Nov 1991
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
10 books · 305 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inheritance | #4 | 16 | 85.3 | ||
| A Ruling Passion | #2 | 11 | 83.4 | ||
| Private Affairs | #8 | 8 | 35.4 | ||
| Sleeping Beauty | #7 | 7 | 29.1 | ||
| Possessions | #11 | 9 | 24.3 | ||
| Acts of Love | #8 | 5 | 18.3 | ||
| Pot of Gold | #10 | 5 | 15.1 | ||
| Deceptions | #11 | 2 | 5.7 | ||
| A Tangled Web | #12 | 2 | 5.6 | ||
| The Real Mother | #13 | 1 | 2.8 |
At their peak
1987 in books →Judith Michael's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1987 to July 1988. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Danielle Steel441
- 2Scott Turow423
- 3Tom Wolfe416
- 4Stephen King399
- 5Tom Clancy333
- 6Robert Ludlum235
- 7Garrison Keillor175
- 8Toni Morrison156
- 9James A. Michener135
- 10John Jakes133
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.