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Chad Harbach portraitChad Harbach

Charting Sep 25, 2011Jan 8, 2012 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.75%
week of Oct 30, 2011
Career Power
31
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
31
January 2011 – January 2012
Peak Five Years
31
January 2007 – January 2012
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Sep 25, 2011
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 · 31 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 Art of Fielding#6931.3

At their peak

2011 in books

Chad Harbach's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2011 to January 2012. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson265
  2. 2Stieg Larsson244
  3. 3David Baldacci180
  4. 4George R. R. Martin166
  5. 5John Grisham157
  6. 6Janet Evanovich114
  7. 7Charlaine Harris107
  8. 8Kathryn Stockett104
  9. 9Jean M. Auel103
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks102

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.