Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Melissa Bank
Charting Jun 20, 1999 → Sep 19, 1999 · 14 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.28%
- week of Sep 12, 1999
- Career Power
- 54
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 54
- September 1998 – September 1999
- Peak Five Years
- 54
- October 1994 – September 1999
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 14
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.58%
- week of Aug 15, 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 · 54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing | #7 | 14 | 53.6 |
At their peak
1998 in books →Melissa Bank's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1998 to September 1999. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J. K. Rowling396
- 2Stephen King311
- 3John Grisham254
- 4Danielle Steel241
- 5Tom Wolfe213
- 6Mary Higgins Clark183
- 7Barbara Kingsolver178
- 8Patricia Cornwell175
- 9Janet Fitch165
- 10Thomas Harris159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1990s.