Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
David Rakoff
Charting Aug 4, 2013 → Aug 11, 2013 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.46%
- week of Aug 11, 2013
- Career Power
- 4
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 4
- August 2012 – August 2013
- Peak Five Years
- 4
- August 2008 – August 2013
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.40%
- week of Aug 4, 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
1 book · 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish | #14 | 2 | 4.5 |
At their peak
2012 in books →David Rakoff's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2012 to August 2013. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Gillian Flynn489
- 2James Patterson238
- 3John Grisham163
- 4Dan Brown154
- 5David Baldacci146
- 6J. K. Rowling133
- 7Khaled Hosseini114
- 8George R. R. Martin106
- 9Danielle Steel90
- 10Ken Follett87
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2010s.