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Gary Shteyngart portraitGary Shteyngart

Charting Aug 15, 2010Nov 21, 2021 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.65%
week of Aug 22, 2010
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
6
August 2009 – August 2010
Peak Five Years
6
August 2005 – August 2010
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Nov 21, 2021
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 · 11 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
Super Sad True Love Story#1126.4
Our Country Friends#1014.2

At their peak

2009 in books

Gary Shteyngart's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2009 to August 2010. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Kathryn Stockett546
  2. 2Dan Brown318
  3. 3James Patterson240
  4. 4Stieg Larsson226
  5. 5Charlaine Harris143
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks139
  7. 7Stephen King94
  8. 8David Baldacci90
  9. 9Pat Conroy89
  10. 10Jodi Picoult81

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.