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Elizabeth Kostova

Charting Jul 3, 2005 → Feb 28, 2010 · 24 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    5 crowns

    20052010

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Aug 2005) · First crown Jul 2005

Peak Power
9.62%
week of Oct 2, 2005
Career Power
222
share-weeks
Crowns
5
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
191
December 2004 – December 2005
Peak Five Years
222
March 2005 – February 2010
Top-five weeks
15
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
24
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jul 3, 2005
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

2 books · 222 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
The Historian#119191.3
The Swan Thieves#4530.4

At their peak

2004 in books →

Elizabeth Kostova's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 2004 to December 2005. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown521
  2. 2James Patterson246
  3. 3Mitch Albom240
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks228
  5. 5Sue Monk Kidd194
  6. 6Elizabeth Kostova191
  7. 7John Grisham138
  8. 8Danielle Steel131
  9. 9Michael Crichton108
  10. 10Michael Connelly100

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.