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Dave Eggers portraitDave Eggers

Charting Jan 21, 2007Aug 14, 2016 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.43%
week of Nov 17, 2013
Career Power
25
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
16
November 2012 – November 2013
Peak Five Years
24
August 2011 – August 2016
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Oct 27, 2013
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

4 books · 25 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
The Circle#7416.2
Heroes of the Frontier#815.5
What Is the What#1611.8
A Hologram for the King#1611.8

At their peak

2012 in books

Dave Eggers's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 2012 to November 2013. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Gillian Flynn376
  2. 2James Patterson245
  3. 3Dan Brown239
  4. 4Khaled Hosseini182
  5. 5John Grisham163
  6. 6David Baldacci146
  7. 7Robert Galbraith127
  8. 8Janet Evanovich79
  9. 9Neil Gaiman78
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.