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Christopher Moore portraitChristopher Moore

Charting Apr 9, 2006Jun 5, 2022 · 27 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.48%
week of May 20, 2012
Career Power
143
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
37
February 2006 – February 2007
Peak Five Years
76
April 2005 – April 2010
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
27
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Apr 22, 2012
Comebacks
4
Mar 2009 · Apr 2012 · May 2014 · May 2018

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

10 books · 143 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
SacrÉ Bleu#3530.4
Fool#4526.0
You Suck#6420.3
A Dirty Job#9517.0
The Serpent of Venice#5213.9
Bite Me#5213.1
Noir#3111.0
Secondhand Souls#716.3
Razzmatazz#1412.4
Shakespeare for Squirrels#1512.1

At their peak

2006 in books

Christopher Moore's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2006 to February 2007. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson346
  2. 2Mitch Albom245
  3. 3Janet Evanovich195
  4. 4Dan Brown145
  5. 5Danielle Steel134
  6. 6Stephen King129
  7. 7Dean Koontz120
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark117
  9. 9Nora Roberts105
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks105

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.