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B. A. Paris portraitB. A. Paris

Charting Aug 28, 2016Jul 8, 2018 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.64%
week of Aug 13, 2017
Career Power
15
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
12
August 2016 – August 2017
Peak Five Years
15
July 2013 – July 2018
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Aug 6, 2017
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

3 books · 15 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 Breakdown#1026.3
Behind Closed Doors#1536.0
Bring Me Back#1312.8

At their peak

2016 in books

B. A. Paris's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2016 to August 2017. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham333
  2. 2Colson Whitehead269
  3. 3James Patterson268
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks215
  5. 5Danielle Steel194
  6. 6David Baldacci157
  7. 7Paula Hawkins143
  8. 8Amor Towles142
  9. 9Jodi Picoult138
  10. 10Neil Gaiman127

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.