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Maria Shriver

Charting Apr 11, 1999May 16, 1999 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.64%
week of May 16, 1999
Career Power
33
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
33
May 1998 – May 1999
Peak Five Years
33
May 1994 – May 1999
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Apr 18, 1999
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

1 book · 33 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
What's Heaven?#5633.1

At their peak

1998 in books

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

  1. 1Danielle Steel248
  2. 2Stephen King232
  3. 3Tom Clancy229
  4. 4John Grisham228
  5. 5Tom Wolfe213
  6. 6Patricia Cornwell205
  7. 7Wally Lamb202
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark181
  9. 9Barbara Kingsolver178
  10. 10Judy Blume172

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.