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Sara Paretsky portraitSara Paretsky

Charting Apr 8, 1990May 7, 2017 · 30 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Guardian Angel#8723.3
Hard Time#11411.9
Total Recall#10411.4
Tunnel Vision#12410.5
Blacklist#1138.4
Fire Sale#1027.3
Hardball#914.8
Body Work#914.8
Bleeding Kansas#1523.9
Burn Marks#1412.4
Fallout#1512.1

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:

  1. 1John Grisham427
  2. 2Alexandra Ripley325
  3. 3Tom Clancy279
  4. 4Dr. Seuss234
  5. 5Danielle Steel231
  6. 6Mary Higgins Clark207
  7. 7Stephen King203
  8. 8Amy Tan181
  9. 9Timothy Zahn170
  10. 10Sidney Sheldon152

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.