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Charting Feb 27, 2000Feb 27, 2000 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.25%
week of Feb 27, 2000
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
March 1999 – February 2000
Peak Five Years
2
March 1995 – February 2000
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.27%
week of Feb 27, 2000
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 · 2 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
Bud, Not Buddy#1512.3

At their peak

1999 in books

Christopher Paul Curtis's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1999 to February 2000. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1J. K. Rowling1,032
  2. 2John Grisham257
  3. 3Danielle Steel240
  4. 4Stephen King239
  5. 5Thomas Harris177
  6. 6Janet Fitch165
  7. 7Maeve Binchy152
  8. 8Patricia Cornwell130
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks124
  10. 10Michael Crichton107

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.