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Alan Dean Foster portraitAlan Dean Foster

Charting Feb 17, 2002Feb 28, 2016 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20022016

    First crown Jan 2016

Peak Power
3.59%
week of Feb 21, 2016
Career Power
57
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
46
March 2015 – February 2016
Peak Five Years
46
March 2011 – February 2016
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jan 24, 2016
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

3 books · 57 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
Star Wars: the Force Awakens#1334.4
The Force Awakens#8311.8
The Approaching Storm#12411.0

At their peak

2015 in books

Alan Dean Foster's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2015 to February 2016. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Paula Hawkins545
  2. 2Anthony Doerr520
  3. 3Kristin Hannah247
  4. 4James Patterson205
  5. 5Harper Lee202
  6. 6John Grisham197
  7. 7Stephen King170
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks145
  9. 9David Baldacci145
  10. 10Anne Tyler87

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.