Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Maya Angelou
Charting Mar 26, 1995 → May 28, 2006 · 16 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.50%
- week of Jan 15, 2006
- Career Power
- 75
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 42
- June 2005 – May 2006
- Peak Five Years
- 42
- May 2001 – May 2006
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 16
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of May 28, 2006
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jan 2006, after 10 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
3 books · 75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phenomenal Woman | #7 | 10 | 33.1 | ||
| Amazing Peace | #4 | 4 | 27.9 | ||
| Mother: a Cradle to Hold Me | #3 | 2 | 13.8 |
At their peak
2005 in books →Maya Angelou's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2005 to May 2006. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Dan Brown483
- 2James Patterson311
- 3Nicholas Sparks245
- 4Elizabeth Kostova191
- 5Danielle Steel140
- 6Sue Monk Kidd122
- 7Patricia Cornwell106
- 8Maxine Paetro102
- 9Stephen King100
- 10Michael Connelly100
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.