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Charting Jul 5, 1998 → Jul 13, 2025 · 38 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    19982025

    First crown Jul 1998

Peak Power
9.40%
week of Oct 18, 1998
Career Power
307
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
202
November 1997 – November 1998
Peak Five Years
202
November 1993 – November 1998
Top-five weeks
22
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
38
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jul 5, 1998
Comebacks
1
Jan 2009, after 10 quiet years

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

4 books · 307 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
I Know This Much Is True#119201.8
The Hour I First Believed#41269.0
We Are Water#4420.8
The River Is Waiting#6315.3

At their peak

1997 in books →

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

  1. 1Charles Frazier371
  2. 2Danielle Steel304
  3. 3Arthur Golden239
  4. 4John Grisham224
  5. 5Wally Lamb202
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks186
  7. 7Anne Rice179
  8. 8Toni Morrison175
  9. 9Judy Blume172
  10. 10Anna Quindlen157

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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