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Charting Apr 19, 1981 → Feb 20, 2022 · 116 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    19812022

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Feb 1998) · First crown Feb 1998

Peak Power
9.23%
week of Apr 12, 1998
Career Power
653
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
175
June 1997 – May 1998
Peak Five Years
246
August 1995 – July 2000
Top-five weeks
28
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
116
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Feb 1, 1998
Comebacks
4
Oct 1987, after 6 quiet years · May 1992 · Feb 1998, after 5 quiet years · Jun 2000

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

10 books · 653 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
Paradise#118175.0
Beloved#331155.7
Jazz#41380.1
The Bluest Eye#31170.7
Tar Baby#51769.7
A Mercy#51141.4
God Help the Child#5629.9
Home#9414.5
Love#11413.7
Recitatif#1312.8

At their peak

1997 in books →

Toni Morrison's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1997 to May 1998. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Charles Frazier529
  2. 2Danielle Steel375
  3. 3John Grisham331
  4. 4Nelson DeMille191
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks190
  6. 6Anne Rice175
  7. 7Toni Morrison175
  8. 8Arundhati Roy145
  9. 9Patricia Cornwell137
  10. 10Arthur Golden132

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.