Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Terry McMillan
Charting May 31, 1992 → Apr 19, 2020 · 86 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 crowns
19922020Longest reign 3 weeks (Feb 2001) · First crown Feb 2001
- Peak Power
- 9.81%
- week of Nov 1, 1992
- Career Power
- 674
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 4
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 283
- April 1992 – April 1993
- Peak Five Years
- 466
- October 1991 – October 1996
- Top-five weeks
- 43
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 86
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.97%
- week of May 26, 1996
- Comebacks
- 3
- Jun 1996 · Feb 2001 · Aug 2005
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
8 books · 674 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waiting to Exhale | #2 | 38 | 282.9 | ||
| How Stella Got Her Groove Back | #1 | 21 | 183.3 | ||
| A Day Late and a Dollar Short | #1 | 12 | 121.7 | ||
| The Interruption of Everything | #2 | 6 | 49.8 | ||
| Getting to Happy | #4 | 6 | 27.7 | ||
| It's Not All Downhill from Here | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| I Almost Forgot About You | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| Who Asked You? | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
1992 in books →Terry McMillan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1992 to April 1993. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Grisham515
- 2Stephen King366
- 3Terry McMillan283
- 4Robert James Waller267
- 5Danielle Steel266
- 6Nick Bantock219
- 7Anne Rice157
- 8Dr. Seuss136
- 9Sidney Sheldon129
- 10? by Jimmy Buffett125
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.