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Ted Hughes portraitTed Hughes

Charting Feb 22, 1998Mar 22, 1998 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.99%
week of Mar 22, 1998
Career Power
23
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
23
March 1997 – March 1998
Peak Five Years
23
April 1993 – March 1998
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Mar 1, 1998
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 · 23 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
Birthday Letters#7522.9

At their peak

1997 in books

Ted Hughes's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1997 to March 1998. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Charles Frazier463
  2. 2Danielle Steel374
  3. 3John Grisham357
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks214
  5. 5Nelson DeMille191
  6. 6Patricia Cornwell150
  7. 7Arundhati Roy145
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark138
  9. 9James Patterson131
  10. 10David Baldacci124

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.