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Deborah Harkness portraitDeborah Harkness

Charting Feb 27, 2011Aug 4, 2024 · 27 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    4 crowns

    20112024

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Feb–Mar 2011) · First crown Feb 2011

Peak Power
4.32%
week of Apr 3, 2011
Career Power
194
share-weeks
Crowns
4
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
59
April 2010 – April 2011
Peak Five Years
161
September 2009 – September 2014
Top-five weeks
10
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
27
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jul 29, 2012
Comebacks
3
Jul 2012 · Aug 2014 · Oct 2018

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

5 books · 194 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
A Discovery of Witches#2859.1
The Book of Life#1756.8
Shadow of Night#1845.3
Time's Convert#3319.9
The Black Bird Oracle#2113.0

At their peak

2010 in books

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

  1. 1Stieg Larsson492
  2. 2Kathryn Stockett364
  3. 3James Patterson248
  4. 4John Grisham168
  5. 5Jonathan Franzen142
  6. 6David Baldacci108
  7. 7Ken Follett96
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks94
  9. 9Janet Evanovich84
  10. 10Lee Child84

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.