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Anthony Doerr portraitAnthony Doerr

Charting May 25, 2014 → Mar 13, 2022 · 153 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    5 crowns

    20142022

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Jan–Feb 2015) · First crown Jan 2015

Peak Power
11.65%
week of Jul 26, 2015
Career Power
1,104
share-weeks
Crowns
5
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
542
January 2015 – January 2016
Peak Five Years
990
January 2012 – January 2017
Top-five weeks
67
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
153
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jan 18, 2015
Comebacks
1
Nov 2021, after 5 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

2 books · 1,104 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
All the Light We Cannot See#1132990.4
Cloud Cuckoo Land#221113.9

At their peak

2015 in books →

Anthony Doerr's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2015 to January 2016. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Paula Hawkins545
  2. 2Anthony Doerr542
  3. 3John Grisham221
  4. 4James Patterson221
  5. 5Kristin Hannah216
  6. 6Harper Lee187
  7. 7Stephen King175
  8. 8David Baldacci173
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks121
  10. 10Anne Tyler87

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.