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Laura Esquivel portraitLaura Esquivel

Charting Apr 18, 1993Nov 3, 1996 · 65 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
8.26%
week of Sep 26, 1993
Career Power
424
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
379
May 1993 – April 1994
Peak Five Years
424
November 1991 – November 1996
Top-five weeks
26
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
65
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.08%
week of Sep 26, 1993
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

2 books · 424 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
Like Water for Chocolate#361411.7
The Law of Love#9412.2

At their peak

1993 in books

Laura Esquivel's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1993 to April 1994. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert James Waller903
  2. 2Laura Esquivel379
  3. 3John Grisham355
  4. 4Tom Clancy266
  5. 5Danielle Steel239
  6. 6Michael Crichton179
  7. 7Stephen King178
  8. 8Anne Rice149
  9. 9Scott Turow129
  10. 10Nick Bantock109

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.