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Colum McCann portraitColum McCann

Charting Jun 23, 2013Mar 15, 2020 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.69%
week of Mar 15, 2020
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
6
March 2019 – March 2020
Peak Five Years
6
March 2015 – March 2020
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Mar 15, 2020
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

2 books · 11 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
Apeirogon#716.3
Transatlantic#1324.8

At their peak

2019 in books

Colum McCann's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2019 to March 2020. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Delia Owens697
  2. 2James Patterson247
  3. 3David Baldacci223
  4. 4Alex Michaelides202
  5. 5John Grisham190
  6. 6Stephen King151
  7. 7Ann Patchett130
  8. 8Danielle Steel128
  9. 9Elin Hilderbrand91
  10. 10Margaret Atwood91

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.