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Terry McMillan portraitTerry McMillan

Charting May 31, 1992Apr 19, 2020 · 86 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    4 crowns

    19922020

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Waiting to Exhale#238282.9
How Stella Got Her Groove Back#121183.3
A Day Late and a Dollar Short#112121.7
The Interruption of Everything#2649.8
Getting to Happy#4627.7
It's Not All Downhill from Here#1213.2
I Almost Forgot About You#1213.2
Who Asked You?#1412.4

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:

  1. 1John Grisham515
  2. 2Stephen King366
  3. 3Terry McMillan283
  4. 4Robert James Waller267
  5. 5Danielle Steel266
  6. 6Nick Bantock219
  7. 7Anne Rice157
  8. 8Dr. Seuss136
  9. 9Sidney Sheldon129
  10. 10? by Jimmy Buffett125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.