Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Curtis Sittenfeld
Charting Feb 27, 2005 → May 14, 2023 · 23 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prep | #7 | 8 | 35.4 | ||
| American Wife | #3 | 5 | 30.6 | ||
| Eligible | #5 | 4 | 23.6 | ||
| Romantic Comedy | #3 | 4 | 23.3 | ||
| Rodham | #8 | 1 | 5.5 | ||
| Sisterland | #12 | 1 | 3.2 |
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:
- 1Dan Brown806
- 2Mitch Albom503
- 3James Patterson225
- 4John Grisham162
- 5Stephen King143
- 6Danielle Steel124
- 7Michael Crichton108
- 8Carl Hiaasen95
- 9Janet Evanovich93
- 10Dustin Thomason90
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.