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Maeve Binchy

Charting Jan 27, 1991 → Mar 27, 2016 · 114 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
19912016
First crown Mar 2013

Peak Power: 4.98%; week of Apr 7, 2013
Career Power: 667; share-weeks
Crowns: 1; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 152; December 1998 – December 1999
Peak Five Years: 281; June 1996 – May 2001
Top-five weeks: 35; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 114; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Mar 3, 2013
Comebacks: 10; Mar 1995 · Mar 1997 · Mar 1999 · Apr 2001 · Dec 2002 · Oct 2004 · Apr 2007 · Mar 2009 · Apr 2011 · Mar 2013

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

14 books · 667 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
Tara Road	#3March 1999	23	March 1999 – December 1999	152.5	144.2
A Week in Winter	#1March 2013	9	March 2013 – April 2013	73.6	73.5
Scarlet Feather	#3March 2001	9	March 2001 – May 2001	60.1	60.1
Evening Class	#5April 1997	12	March 1997 – May 1997	59.8	59.8
Circle of Friends	#6February 1991	12	January 1991 – April 1991	55.6	55.6
Whitethorn Woods	#2March 2007	8	March 2007 – May 2007	55.2	55.2
The Glass Lake	#5April 1995	11	March 1995 – May 1995	55.1	54.0
Heart and Soul	#3March 2009	6	March 2009 – April 2009	37.5	37.5
Quentins	#5November 2002	6	November 2002 – December 2002	30.3	30.3
Chestnut Street	#3May 2014	5	May 2014 – June 2014	30.0	30.0
Nights of Rain and Stars	#4October 2004	4	October 2004 – October 2004	22.7	22.4
Minding Frankie	#4March 2011	3	March 2011 – April 2011	20.7	20.7
This Year It Will Be Different	#14December 1996	4	December 1996 – January 1997	9.0	9.0
A Few of the Girls	#12March 2016	2	March 2016 – March 2016	5.3	5.3

At their peak

1998 in books →

Maeve Binchy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1998 to December 1999. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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