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Judy Blume

Charting Nov 12, 1978 → Aug 9, 2015 · 56 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power: 7.71%; week of Sep 6, 1998
Career Power: 382; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 172; November 1997 – November 1998
Peak Five Years: 172; November 1993 – November 1998
Top-five weeks: 23; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 56; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 12.64%; week of Mar 4, 1984
Comebacks: 3; Feb 1984, after 5 quiet years · Jun 1998, after 14 quiet years · Jul 2015, after 17 quiet years

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

5 books · 382 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
Summer Sisters	#2June 1998	22	June 1998 – November 1998	172.0	172.0
Smart Women	#2March 1984	17	February 1984 – June 1984	135.6	135.6
In the Unlikely Event	#4June 2015	8	June 2015 – August 2015	47.3	47.3
Wifey	#10December 1978	8	November 1978 – January 1979	22.8	22.8
Smart Woman	#10February 1984	1	February 1984	4.2	4.2

At their peak

1997 in books →

Judy Blume's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1997 to November 1998. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.