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Melinda Haynes

Charting Jul 4, 1999Oct 3, 1999 · 13 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Mother of Pearl#31394.6

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:

  1. 1J. K. Rowling458
  2. 2Stephen King322
  3. 3John Grisham254
  4. 4Danielle Steel244
  5. 5Tom Wolfe213
  6. 6Patricia Cornwell185
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark183
  8. 8Barbara Kingsolver178
  9. 9Thomas Harris168
  10. 10Janet Fitch165

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.