Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Sara Paretsky
Charting Apr 8, 1990 → May 7, 2017 · 30 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.78%
- week of Mar 22, 1992
- Career Power
- 91
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 23
- April 1991 – April 1992
- Peak Five Years
- 36
- July 1989 – June 1994
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 30
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Mar 8, 1992
- Comebacks
- 2
- Oct 1999, after 7 quiet years · Oct 2001
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
11 books · 91 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guardian Angel | #8 | 7 | 23.3 | ||
| Hard Time | #11 | 4 | 11.9 | ||
| Total Recall | #10 | 4 | 11.4 | ||
| Tunnel Vision | #12 | 4 | 10.5 | ||
| Blacklist | #11 | 3 | 8.4 | ||
| Fire Sale | #10 | 2 | 7.3 | ||
| Hardball | #9 | 1 | 4.8 | ||
| Body Work | #9 | 1 | 4.8 | ||
| Bleeding Kansas | #15 | 2 | 3.9 | ||
| Burn Marks | #14 | 1 | 2.4 | ||
| Fallout | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1991 in books →Sara Paretsky's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1991 to April 1992. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Grisham427
- 2Alexandra Ripley325
- 3Tom Clancy279
- 4Dr. Seuss234
- 5Danielle Steel231
- 6Mary Higgins Clark207
- 7Stephen King203
- 8Amy Tan181
- 9Timothy Zahn170
- 10Sidney Sheldon152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.