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Rosamunde Pilcher

Charting Feb 21, 1988 → Oct 29, 2000 · 110 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
7 crowns
19882000
Longest reign 3 weeks (Apr–May 1990) · First crown Apr 1990

Peak Power: 8.42%; week of Jun 17, 1990
Career Power: 684; share-weeks
Crowns: 7; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 228; October 1989 – October 1990
Peak Five Years: 472; November 1986 – October 1991
Top-five weeks: 32; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 110; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Apr 22, 1990
Comebacks: 3; Apr 1990 · Sep 1995 · Aug 2000, after 5 quiet years

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 · 684 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
September	#1April 1990	26	April 1990 – October 1990	227.8	227.4
The Shell Seekers	#6April 1988	47	February 1988 – January 1989	196.2	196.2
Coming Home	#2September 1995	18	September 1995 – January 1996	116.5	116.5
Winter Solstice	#1August 2000	11	August 2000 – October 2000	95.5	95.5
Flowers in the Rain	#4September 1991	8	September 1991 – October 1991	47.7	47.7

At their peak

1989 in books →

Rosamunde Pilcher's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1989 to October 1990. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.