Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Patricia D. Cornwell
Charting Aug 30, 1992 → Sep 12, 1993 · 21 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.95%
- week of Oct 18, 1992
- Career Power
- 117
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 110
- September 1992 – August 1993
- Peak Five Years
- 117
- September 1988 – September 1993
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 21
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Sep 27, 1992
- 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 · 117 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cruel & Unusual | #5 | 12 | 62.0 | ||
| All That Remains | #5 | 9 | 55.3 |
At their peak
1992 in books →Patricia D. Cornwell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1992 to August 1993. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert James Waller556
- 2John Grisham507
- 3Stephen King264
- 4Nick Bantock229
- 5Danielle Steel174
- 6Anne Rice157
- 7Terry McMillan152
- 8Laura Esquivel148
- 9Sidney Sheldon129
- 10? by Jimmy Buffett123
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1990s.