Skip to content

Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Iain Pears

Entered Apr 5, 1998 · 6 weeks on the list, last seen May 17, 1998

Book Power
18.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#10
1 week there · Apr 12, 1998
Top-ten weeks
1
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
6
April 1998 – May 1998

Ranked by Book Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a list published by anyone else. How it works →

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
Iain Pearsprimary100%18.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 12, 1998 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Street LawyerJohn Grisham
  2. #2PandoraAnne Rice
  3. #3ParadiseToni Morrison
  4. #4HomeportNora Roberts
  5. #5Cold MountainCharles Frazier
  6. #6Memoirs of a GeishaArthur Golden
  7. #7Blood WorkMichael Connelly
  8. #8ToxinRobin Cook
  9. #9Black and BlueAnna Quindlen
  10. #10An Instance of the FingerpostIain Pears

The #1 bestsellers of 1998

1998 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1998.