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Alafair Burke portraitAlafair Burke

Charting Dec 7, 2014May 7, 2023 · 14 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.67%
week of Dec 28, 2014
Career Power
28
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
11
December 2014 – December 2015
Peak Five Years
24
December 2013 – December 2018
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
14
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.63%
week of Dec 7, 2014
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

7 books · 28 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
The Cinderella Murderwith Mary Higgins Clark#647.7
Every Breath You Takewith Mary Higgins Clark#725.3
All Dressed in Whitewith Mary Higgins Clark#724.7
You Don't Own Mewith Mary Higgins Clark#1123.0
The Sleeping Beauty Killerwith Mary Higgins Clark#1122.9
Where Are the Children Now?with Mary Higgins Clark#912.4
Piece of My Heartwith Mary Higgins Clark#1012.1

At their peak

2014 in books

Alafair Burke's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 2014 to December 2015. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Anthony Doerr539
  2. 2Paula Hawkins502
  3. 3John Grisham220
  4. 4James Patterson215
  5. 5David Baldacci195
  6. 6Kristin Hannah193
  7. 7Stephen King188
  8. 8Harper Lee160
  9. 9Anne Tyler87
  10. 10Michael Connelly72

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.