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Diana Gabaldon

Charting Feb 6, 1994 → Feb 6, 2022 · 56 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 crowns
19942022
Longest reign 2 weeks (Dec 2021) · First crown Oct 2005

Peak Power: 4.59%; week of Jan 16, 2022
Career Power: 343; share-weeks
Crowns: 4; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 64; February 2021 – February 2022
Peak Five Years: 104; September 2009 – September 2014
Top-five weeks: 17; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 56; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Oct 16, 2005
Comebacks: 6; Dec 2001, after 5 quiet years · Oct 2005 · Oct 2009 · Jun 2014 · Jul 2017 · Dec 2021

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

11 books · 343 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
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone	#1December 2021	8	December 2021 – February 2022	63.9	63.9
Written in My Own Heart's Blood	#1June 2014	10	June 2014 – September 2014	56.8	56.8
Drums of Autumn	#2January 1997	8	January 1997 – March 1997	55.1	55.1
A Breath of Snow and Ashes	#1October 2005	5	October 2005 – November 2005	39.7	39.4
An Echo in the Bone	#2October 2009	5	October 2009 – November 2009	38.0	38.0
The Fiery Cross	#3November 2001	6	November 2001 – December 2001	32.1	32.1
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall	#5July 2017	3	July 2017 – July 2017	15.9	15.9
Lord John and the Private Matter	#8October 2003	4	October 2003 – November 2003	14.8	14.8
Voyager	#12February 1994	3	February 1994 – February 1994	9.4	9.1
The Scottish Prisoner	#8December 2011	2	December 2011 – December 2011	8.7	8.7
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade	#8September 2007	2	September 2007 – September 2007	8.3	8.3

At their peak

2021 in books →

Diana Gabaldon's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2021 to February 2022. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.