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Chuck Palahniuk portraitChuck Palahniuk

Charting Jun 10, 2001May 20, 2018 · 36 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.47%
week of Jun 14, 2009
Career Power
183
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
35
June 2008 – May 2009
Peak Five Years
98
June 2004 – June 2009
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
36
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of May 24, 2009
Comebacks
4
May 2005 · May 2007 · Nov 2011 · Nov 2014

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

13 books · 183 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
Pygmy#3428.0
Rant#5527.7
Haunted#8625.6
Diary#5421.2
Snuff#5316.7
Lullaby#7312.6
Damned#6212.1
Beautiful You#5210.2
Choke#1039.0
Adjustment Day#716.3
Make Something Up#815.5
Tell-All#1014.2
Doomed#1113.6

At their peak

2008 in books

Chuck Palahniuk's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2008 to May 2009. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephenie Meyer416
  2. 2David Wroblewski311
  3. 3James Patterson217
  4. 4John Grisham145
  5. 5Janet Evanovich135
  6. 6Patricia Cornwell119
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks110
  8. 8David Baldacci110
  9. 9Annie Barrows88
  10. 10Mary Ann Shaffer88

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.