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Alice Sebold portraitAlice Sebold

Charting Jul 14, 2002Dec 9, 2007 · 71 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    11 crowns

    20022007

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Sep 2002) · First crown Aug 2002

Peak Power
12.34%
week of Mar 16, 2003
Career Power
629
share-weeks
Crowns
11
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
528
July 2002 – July 2003
Peak Five Years
597
October 1998 – October 2003
Top-five weeks
42
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
71
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Aug 18, 2002
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 · 629 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 Lovely Bones#165597.4
The Almost Moon#2631.7

At their peak

2002 in books

Alice Sebold's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 2002 to July 2003. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Alice Sebold528
  2. 2John Grisham300
  3. 3James Patterson242
  4. 4Dan Brown202
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks199
  6. 6Danielle Steel188
  7. 7Tom Clancy141
  8. 8Michael Crichton127
  9. 9Jerry B. Jenkins111
  10. 10Tim LaHaye111

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.