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Robert James Waller

Charting Aug 16, 1992 → Jul 7, 2002 · 174 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year: 1993
1994

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
67 crowns
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Longest reign 32 weeks (Sep 1993 – Apr 1994) · First crown Jan 1993

Peak Power: 21.18%; week of Jan 16, 1994
Career Power: 1,913; share-weeks
Crowns: 67; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 904; April 1993 – April 1994
Peak Five Years: 1,864; December 1990 – December 1995
Top-five weeks: 106; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 174; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 24.03%; week of Nov 14, 1993
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

5 books · 1,913 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 Bridges of Madison County	#1January 1993	164	August 1992 – October 1995	1,469.1	1,512.2
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend	#1November 1993	29	November 1993 – May 1994	249.7	298.0
Border Music	#2March 1995	18	February 1995 – June 1995	142.5	146.4
A Thousand Country Roads	#5May 2002	9	May 2002 – July 2002	49.1	49.1
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze	#14December 1995	1	December 1995	2.4	2.4

At their peak

1993 in books →

Robert James Waller's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1993 to April 1994. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s.