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Dennis Lehane portraitDennis Lehane

Charting Feb 18, 2001May 14, 2023 · 28 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.15%
week of Apr 15, 2001
Career Power
128
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
43
April 2000 – April 2001
Peak Five Years
54
May 1998 – May 2003
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Oct 12, 2008
Comebacks
2
Oct 2008, after 7 quiet years · Jun 2017, after 8 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

8 books · 128 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
Mystic River#6943.3
The Given Day#3422.1
Since We Fell#7312.3
World Gone By#8311.4
Shutter Island#12411.1
Live by Night#8210.3
Moonlight Mile#629.4
Small Mercies#518.3

At their peak

2000 in books

Dennis Lehane's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2000 to April 2001. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Danielle Steel292
  2. 2James Patterson267
  3. 3J. K. Rowling260
  4. 4John Grisham241
  5. 5Tom Clancy183
  6. 6Jerry B. Jenkins160
  7. 7Tim LaHaye160
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark152
  9. 9Barbara Kingsolver122
  10. 10Sandra Brown119

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.