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Patricia D. Cornwell portraitPatricia D. Cornwell

Charting Aug 30, 1992Sep 12, 1993 · 21 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Cruel & Unusual#51262.0
All That Remains#5955.3

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:

  1. 1Robert James Waller556
  2. 2John Grisham507
  3. 3Stephen King264
  4. 4Nick Bantock229
  5. 5Danielle Steel174
  6. 6Anne Rice157
  7. 7Terry McMillan152
  8. 8Laura Esquivel148
  9. 9Sidney Sheldon129
  10. 10? by Jimmy Buffett123

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.