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Peter Mayle portraitPeter Mayle

Charting Nov 21, 1993Jul 4, 2004 · 27 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.22%
week of May 21, 1995
Career Power
107
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
46
June 1994 – June 1995
Peak Five Years
99
September 1992 – September 1997
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
27
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.51%
week of Apr 16, 1995
Comebacks
1
Jul 1997

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

5 books · 107 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
A Dog's Life#5946.3
Chasing Cezanne#61245.9
A Good Year#1337.5
Hotel Pastis#1424.7
Anything Considered#1412.5

At their peak

1994 in books

Peter Mayle's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1994 to June 1995. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Redfield663
  2. 2James Finn Garner508
  3. 3Robert James Waller439
  4. 4John Grisham329
  5. 5Danielle Steel255
  6. 6Tom Clancy254
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark192
  8. 8Stephen King161
  9. 9Anne Rice126
  10. 10Dr. Seuss112

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s.