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Alice Hoffman

Charting Aug 26, 1990 → Sep 3, 2023 · 39 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power: 1.99%; week of Sep 16, 2001
Career Power: 132; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 25; September 2000 – September 2001
Peak Five Years: 36; April 1989 – April 1994
Top-five weeks: 1; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 39; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 8.34%; week of Oct 29, 2017
Comebacks: 3; Aug 2001, after 11 quiet years · Nov 2011, after 10 quiet years · Nov 2017, after 6 quiet years

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

16 books · 132 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.

Title	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Book Power
Blue Diary	#6August 2001	6	August 2001 – September 2001	25.4	25.4
Seventh Heaven	#10September 1990	5	August 1990 – September 1990	15.7	15.6
The Dovekeepers	#9October 2011	4	October 2011 – November 2011	13.3	13.3
The Rules of Magic	#5October 2017	2	October 2017 – November 2017	10.7	10.7
Second Nature	#12April 1994	4	March 1994 – April 1994	10.7	10.4
Turtle Moon	#10June 1992	3	May 1992 – June 1992	9.3	9.3
The Marriage of Opposites	#11August 2015	3	August 2015 – September 2015	9.2	9.2
Magic Lessons	#6October 2020	1	October 2020	7.3	7.3
The River King	#12August 2000	2	August 2000 – August 2000	6.3	6.3
The Book of Magic	#8October 2021	1	October 2021	5.5	5.5
The Red Garden	#13February 2011	2	February 2011 – February 2011	5.2	5.2
The Museum of Extraordinary Things	#14March 2014	2	March 2014 – March 2014	4.5	4.5
The World That We Knew	#13October 2019	1	October 2019	2.8	2.8
The Probable Future	#15July 2003	1	July 2003	2.1	2.1
The Third Angel	#15May 2008	1	May 2008	2.1	2.1
The Invisible Hour	#15September 2023	1	September 2023	2.1	2.1

At their peak

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Alice Hoffman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2000 to September 2001. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.