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Greg Bear

Charting May 21, 2000Apr 7, 2013 · 6 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
1.62%
week of Jun 18, 2000
Career Power
25
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
19
June 1999 – June 2000
Peak Five Years
19
July 1995 – June 2000
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Apr 7, 2013
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 · 25 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
STAR WARS: Rogue Planet#9519.3
Halo: Silentium#815.5

At their peak

1999 in books

Greg Bear's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1999 to June 2000. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1J. K. Rowling1,268
  2. 2John Grisham273
  3. 3Danielle Steel256
  4. 4Thomas Harris177
  5. 5Stephen King146
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks132
  7. 7Michael Crichton122
  8. 8James Patterson111
  9. 9Mary Higgins Clark109
  10. 10Janet Fitch103

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.