Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Whitney Otto
Charting May 5, 1991 → Jul 28, 1991 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.07%
- week of Jun 23, 1991
- Career Power
- 18
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 18
- August 1990 – July 1991
- Peak Five Years
- 18
- August 1986 – July 1991
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of May 5, 1991
- 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 · 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How to Make an American Quilt | #12 | 7 | 18.3 |
At their peak
1990 in books →Whitney Otto's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1990 to July 1991. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephen King339
- 2Jean M. Auel315
- 3Danielle Steel301
- 4Dr. Seuss242
- 5Sidney Sheldon217
- 6Scott Turow213
- 7John Grisham205
- 8Anne Rice161
- 9Dean R. Koontz147
- 10Mary Higgins Clark145
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1990s.