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Charlaine Harris

Charting May 22, 2005 → May 24, 2015 · 76 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
11 crowns
20052015
Longest reign 4 weeks (May–Jun 2011) · First crown May 2009

Peak Power: 6.56%; week of Jun 26, 2011
Career Power: 501; share-weeks
Crowns: 11; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 155; August 2009 – July 2010
Peak Five Years: 459; November 2008 – November 2013
Top-five weeks: 29; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 76; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of May 24, 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

16 books · 501 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
Dead and Gone	#1May 2009	23	May 2009 – October 2009	106.4	107.1
Dead Reckoning	#1May 2011	10	May 2011 – July 2011	91.7	91.7
Dead in the Family	#1May 2010	10	May 2010 – July 2010	80.4	80.4
Deadlocked	#1May 2012	6	May 2012 – June 2012	61.7	61.7
Dead Ever After	#1May 2013	5	May 2013 – June 2013	47.5	47.5
A Touch of Dead	#2October 2009	4	October 2009 – November 2009	24.5	25.2
From Dead to Worse	#6May 2008	6	May 2008 – February 2009	21.8	21.8
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion	#2September 2011	2	September 2011 – September 2011	15.0	15.0
After Dead	#2November 2013	1	November 2013	12.7	12.7
All Together Dead	#6May 2007	3	May 2007 – June 2007	11.8	11.8
Definitely Dead	#8May 2006	3	May 2006 – June 2006	11.8	11.8
Grave Secret	#9November 2009	1	November 2009	4.8	4.8
Midnight Crossroad	#12May 2014	1	May 2014	3.2	3.2
Death’S Excellent Vacationwith Toni L. P. Kelner	#8August 2010	1	August 2010	2.8	5.5
Dead as a Doornail	#14May 2005	1	May 2005	2.4	2.4
Day Shift	#15May 2015	1	May 2015	2.1	2.1

At their peak

2009 in books →

Charlaine Harris's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2009 to July 2010. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.