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David Sedaris portraitDavid Sedaris

Charting Oct 17, 2010Jan 9, 2011 · 13 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.69%
week of Jan 9, 2011
Career Power
66
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
66
January 2010 – January 2011
Peak Five Years
66
January 2006 – January 2011
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Oct 17, 2010
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 · 66 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
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk#51365.8

At their peak

2010 in books

David Sedaris's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2010 to January 2011. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Kathryn Stockett475
  2. 2Stieg Larsson387
  3. 3James Patterson247
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks130
  5. 5Jonathan Franzen122
  6. 6John Grisham117
  7. 7Dan Brown114
  8. 8David Baldacci101
  9. 9Ken Follett94
  10. 10Janet Evanovich84

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.