Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Melinda Haynes
Charting Jul 4, 1999 → Oct 3, 1999 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.45%
- week of Sep 12, 1999
- Career Power
- 95
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 95
- October 1998 – October 1999
- Peak Five Years
- 95
- October 1994 – October 1999
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.30%
- week of Jul 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 · 95 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mother of Pearl | #3 | 13 | 94.6 |
At their peak
1998 in books →Melinda Haynes's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1998 to October 1999. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J. K. Rowling458
- 2Stephen King322
- 3John Grisham254
- 4Danielle Steel244
- 5Tom Wolfe213
- 6Patricia Cornwell185
- 7Mary Higgins Clark183
- 8Barbara Kingsolver178
- 9Thomas Harris168
- 10Janet Fitch165
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1990s.