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Elizabeth Peters

Charting May 21, 2000Aug 13, 2017 · 19 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.19%
week of May 5, 2002
Career Power
70
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
21
May 2001 – May 2002
Peak Five Years
48
April 2001 – April 2006
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Apr 25, 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

10 books · 70 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 Golden One#8312.4
Tomb of the Golden Bird#728.7
Lord of the Silent#1038.7
A River in the Sky#518.3
He Shall Thunder in the Sky#1338.0
Children of the Storm#1127.3
Guardian of the Horizon#1027.1
The Serpent on the Crown#1014.2
The Painted Queenwith Joan Hess#713.2
The Laughter of Dead Kings#1611.8

At their peak

2001 in books

Elizabeth Peters's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2001 to May 2002. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham376
  2. 2James Patterson288
  3. 3Danielle Steel266
  4. 4Jonathan Franzen227
  5. 5Stephen King191
  6. 6Mattie J.T. Stepanek178
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark150
  8. 8Lalita Tademy146
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks112
  10. 10Jan Karon103

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.