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Alex Berenson portraitAlex Berenson

Charting Mar 2, 2008Feb 19, 2017 · 14 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.23%
week of Mar 6, 2011
Career Power
58
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
12
March 2010 – March 2011
Peak Five Years
38
March 2009 – March 2014
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
14
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Feb 27, 2011
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

9 books · 58 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 Secret Soldier#6212.1
The Counterfeit Agent#828.3
The Midnight House#928.0
Twelve Days#1026.6
The Ghost War#1125.7
The Shadow Patrol#815.5
The Prisoner#815.5
The Night Ranger#1014.2
The Wolves#1412.4

At their peak

2010 in books

Alex Berenson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2010 to March 2011. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stieg Larsson455
  2. 2Kathryn Stockett428
  3. 3James Patterson235
  4. 4John Grisham165
  5. 5Jonathan Franzen142
  6. 6David Baldacci108
  7. 7Ken Follett96
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks94
  9. 9Janet Evanovich84
  10. 10Lee Child84

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.