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Geraldine Brooks portraitGeraldine Brooks

Charting Jan 20, 2008Feb 19, 2023 · 25 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
People of the Book#2963.6
Horse#31039.4
Caleb's Crossing#7522.9
The Secret Chord#1213.2

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:

  1. 1Khaled Hosseini462
  2. 2James Patterson294
  3. 3John Grisham206
  4. 4Ken Follett168
  5. 5Janet Evanovich150
  6. 6David Baldacci137
  7. 7Jodi Picoult118
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks114
  9. 9Dean Koontz111
  10. 10Danielle Steel95

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.