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Shel Silverstein portraitShel Silverstein

Charting Jun 9, 1996 → Jan 26, 1997 · 30 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.57%
week of Aug 25, 1996
Career Power
180
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
180
February 1996 – January 1997
Peak Five Years
180
February 1992 – January 1997
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
30
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.26%
week of Jul 7, 1996
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

1 book · 180 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
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At their peak

1996 in books →

Shel Silverstein's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1996 to January 1997. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Redfield448
  2. 2Danielle Steel267
  3. 3John Grisham260
  4. 4Tom Clancy240
  5. 5Anonymous220
  6. 6Mary Higgins Clark218
  7. 7Jacquelyn Mitchard188
  8. 8Terry McMillan183
  9. 9Shel Silverstein180
  10. 10Nicholas Evans149

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.