Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Geraldine Brooks
Charting Jan 20, 2008 → Feb 19, 2023 · 25 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.35%
- week of Mar 2, 2008
- Career Power
- 129
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 64
- March 2007 – March 2008
- Peak Five Years
- 87
- June 2006 – June 2011
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 25
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Feb 3, 2008
- Comebacks
- 2
- Jun 2011 · Jul 2022, after 11 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
4 books · 129 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People of the Book | #2 | 9 | 63.6 | ||
| Horse | #3 | 10 | 39.4 | ||
| Caleb's Crossing | #7 | 5 | 22.9 | ||
| The Secret Chord | #12 | 1 | 3.2 |
At their peak
2007 in books →Geraldine Brooks's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2007 to March 2008. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Khaled Hosseini462
- 2James Patterson294
- 3John Grisham206
- 4Ken Follett168
- 5Janet Evanovich150
- 6David Baldacci137
- 7Jodi Picoult118
- 8Nicholas Sparks114
- 9Dean Koontz111
- 10Danielle Steel95
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.