Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
? by Sidney Sheldon
Charting Oct 3, 2004 → Oct 31, 2004 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.96%
- week of Oct 24, 2004
- Career Power
- 35
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 35
- November 2003 – October 2004
- Peak Five Years
- 35
- November 1999 – October 2004
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.30%
- week of Oct 3, 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
1 book · 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Are You Afraid of the Dark | #3 | 5 | 34.7 |
At their peak
2003 in books →? by Sidney Sheldon's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 2003 to October 2004. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Dan Brown899
- 2Mitch Albom558
- 3John Grisham232
- 4James Patterson217
- 5Stephen King206
- 6Patricia Cornwell145
- 7Danielle Steel128
- 8Carl Hiaasen95
- 9Dustin Thomason90
- 10Ian Caldwell90
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2000s.