Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 2.8
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #13
- 1 week there · May 24, 1998
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 1
- 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.
| Author | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Larson | primary | 100% | 2.8 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See May 24, 1998 on the timeline →- #1You Belong to MeMary Higgins Clark
- #2''N'' Is for NooseSue Grafton
- #3The Long Road HomeDanielle Steel
- #4Black and BlueAnna Quindlen
- #5Message in a BottleNicholas Sparks
- #6A Widow for One YearJohn Irving
- #7The Street LawyerJohn Grisham
- #8A Patchwork PlanetAnne Tyler
- #9Memoirs of a GeishaArthur Golden
- #10Cold MountainCharles Frazier
The #1 bestsellers of 1998
1998 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1998.
- Cold Mountain · Charles Frazier
- Paradise · Toni Morrison
- The Street Lawyer · John Grisham
- The Long Road Home · Danielle Steel
- You Belong to Me · Mary Higgins Clark
- ''N'' Is for Noose · Sue Grafton
- A Widow for One Year · John Irving
- I Know This Much Is True · Wally Lamb
- The Klone and I · Danielle Steel
- Point of Origin · Patricia Cornwell
- Rainbow Six · Tom Clancy
- Bag of Bones · Stephen King
- The Path of Daggers · Robert Jordan
- A Man in Full · Tom Wolfe