Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden

Entered Nov 2, 1997 · peaked at #5 on Mar 22, 1998 · 62 weeks on the list, last seen Jan 31, 1999

Book Power
289.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
39
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
62
November 1997 – January 1999

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The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the list.

What it earned each author

Book Power is the book's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each author's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the author had other books charting is split between them.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Arthur Goldenprimary100%289.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 22, 1998 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Street LawyerJohn Grisham
  2. #2ParadiseToni Morrison
  3. #3Cold MountainCharles Frazier
  4. #4Black and BlueAnna Quindlen
  5. #5Memoirs of a GeishaArthur Golden
  6. #6Thrill! by Jackie Collins
  7. #7The Cat Who Sang for the BirdsLilian Jackson Braun
  8. #8Blood WorkMichael Connelly
  9. #9Numbered AccountChristopher Reich
  10. #10Guilty PleasuresLawrence Sanders