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Mary Jo Putney

Charting Jun 22, 1997Jun 22, 1997 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.20%
week of Jun 22, 1997
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
June 1996 – June 1997
Peak Five Years
2
July 1992 – June 1997
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.82%
week of Jun 22, 1997
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 · 2 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
One Perfect Rose#1611.8

At their peak

1996 in books

Mary Jo Putney's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1996 to June 1997. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham405
  2. 2James Redfield285
  3. 3Tom Clancy246
  4. 4Patricia Cornwell243
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks241
  6. 6Jacquelyn Mitchard237
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark218
  8. 8Danielle Steel212
  9. 9Michael Crichton159
  10. 10Shel Silverstein156

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.