Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Michael Cunningham
Charting May 2, 1999 → Jun 26, 2005 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.08%
- week of May 23, 1999
- Career Power
- 15
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 12
- May 1998 – May 1999
- Peak Five Years
- 12
- June 1994 – May 1999
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of May 2, 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
2 books · 15 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 Hours | #8 | 3 | 11.8 | ||
| Specimen Days | #11 | 1 | 3.6 |
At their peak
1998 in books →Michael Cunningham's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1998 to May 1999. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Danielle Steel244
- 2Stephen King242
- 3Tom Clancy229
- 4John Grisham228
- 5Tom Wolfe213
- 6Patricia Cornwell205
- 7Wally Lamb202
- 8Mary Higgins Clark179
- 9Barbara Kingsolver178
- 10Judy Blume172
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.