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Michael Jan Friedman

Charting Nov 10, 1991Jun 19, 1994 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.11%
week of Jun 19, 1994
Career Power
23
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
12
December 1990 – December 1991
Peak Five Years
23
July 1989 – June 1994
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Jun 12, 1994
Comebacks
1
Jun 1994

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 · 23 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
Reunion#10411.5
All Good Things ...#8311.2

At their peak

1990 in books

Michael Jan Friedman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1990 to December 1991. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham354
  2. 2Dr. Seuss233
  3. 3Danielle Steel230
  4. 4Jean M. Auel212
  5. 5Mary Higgins Clark207
  6. 6Stephen King201
  7. 7Tom Clancy187
  8. 8Amy Tan181
  9. 9Timothy Zahn170
  10. 10Sidney Sheldon160

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.