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Carlos Ruiz Zafón portraitCarlos Ruiz Zafón

Charting Jul 5, 2009 → Oct 7, 2018 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.41%
week of Jul 26, 2009
Career Power
37
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
30
August 2008 – August 2009
Peak Five Years
35
August 2007 – July 2012
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Jul 5, 2009
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 · 37 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 Angel's Game#3530.0
The Prisoner of Heaven#914.8
The Labyrinth of the Spirits#1512.1

At their peak

2008 in books →

Carlos Ruiz Zafón's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2008 to August 2009. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephenie Meyer333
  2. 2David Wroblewski253
  3. 3James Patterson209
  4. 4John Grisham145
  5. 5David Baldacci124
  6. 6Janet Evanovich123
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks110
  8. 8Patricia Cornwell101
  9. 9Eric Van Lustbader98
  10. 10Michael Connelly97

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.