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Christopher Reich

Charting Mar 1, 1998Aug 23, 2009 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.64%
week of Apr 5, 1998
Career Power
38
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
20
April 1997 – April 1998
Peak Five Years
20
April 1993 – April 1998
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Aug 3, 2008
Comebacks
1
Aug 2008, after 10 quiet years

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 · 38 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
Numbered Account#9620.2
Rules of Deception#3214.6
Rules of Vengeance#1113.6

At their peak

1997 in books

Christopher Reich's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1997 to April 1998. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Charles Frazier483
  2. 2Danielle Steel374
  3. 3John Grisham357
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks195
  5. 5Nelson DeMille191
  6. 6Arundhati Roy145
  7. 7Patricia Cornwell140
  8. 8Toni Morrison139
  9. 9Mary Higgins Clark138
  10. 10James Patterson131

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s.