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Erin Morgenstern portraitErin Morgenstern

Charting Oct 2, 2011Jan 19, 2020 · 16 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.15%
week of Oct 30, 2011
Career Power
87
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
55
November 2010 – November 2011
Peak Five Years
55
November 2006 – November 2011
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Oct 2, 2011
Comebacks
1
Dec 2019, 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

2 books · 87 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 Night Circus#2754.9
The Starless Sea#3932.0

At their peak

2010 in books

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

  1. 1Stieg Larsson311
  2. 2James Patterson263
  3. 3David Baldacci187
  4. 4John Grisham168
  5. 5George R. R. Martin149
  6. 6Kathryn Stockett133
  7. 7Charlaine Harris107
  8. 8Jean M. Auel103
  9. 9Tom Clancy89
  10. 10Ann Patchett89

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.