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Alice Munro portraitAlice Munro

Charting Dec 5, 2004Dec 2, 2012 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.40%
week of Dec 5, 2004
Career Power
6
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
December 2003 – December 2004
Peak Five Years
4
December 1999 – December 2004
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.63%
week of Dec 5, 2004
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

2 books · 6 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
Runaway#1113.6
Dear Life#1512.1

At their peak

2003 in books

Alice Munro's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 2003 to December 2004. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown889
  2. 2Mitch Albom537
  3. 3James Patterson232
  4. 4John Grisham197
  5. 5Stephen King192
  6. 6Danielle Steel137
  7. 7Patricia Cornwell115
  8. 8Carl Hiaasen95
  9. 9Dustin Thomason90
  10. 10Ian Caldwell90

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.