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Curtis Sittenfeld portraitCurtis Sittenfeld

Charting Feb 27, 2005May 14, 2023 · 23 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.59%
week of Apr 17, 2005
Career Power
122
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
35
April 2004 – April 2005
Peak Five Years
66
October 2003 – October 2008
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
23
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Sep 21, 2008
Comebacks
3
Sep 2008 · May 2016, after 7 quiet years · Apr 2023, after 7 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

6 books · 122 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
Prep#7835.4
American Wife#3530.6
Eligible#5423.6
Romantic Comedy#3423.3
Rodham#815.5
Sisterland#1213.2

At their peak

2004 in books

Curtis Sittenfeld's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2004 to April 2005. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown806
  2. 2Mitch Albom503
  3. 3James Patterson225
  4. 4John Grisham162
  5. 5Stephen King143
  6. 6Danielle Steel124
  7. 7Michael Crichton108
  8. 8Carl Hiaasen95
  9. 9Janet Evanovich93
  10. 10Dustin Thomason90

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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