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Gregory Maguire portraitGregory Maguire

Charting Oct 16, 2005Apr 13, 2025 · 26 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.33%
week of Nov 13, 2005
Career Power
128
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
67
January 2005 – January 2006
Peak Five Years
89
November 2003 – November 2008
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
26
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Oct 16, 2005
Comebacks
2
Nov 2008 · Dec 2024, after 16 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

5 books · 128 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
Son of a Witch#21466.5
A Lion Among Men#4422.2
Wicked#9418.6
Out of Oz#9310.7
Elphie#4110.1

At their peak

2005 in books

Gregory Maguire's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2005 to January 2006. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown504
  2. 2Nicholas Sparks282
  3. 3James Patterson274
  4. 4Sue Monk Kidd194
  5. 5Elizabeth Kostova191
  6. 6Mitch Albom175
  7. 7John Grisham138
  8. 8Danielle Steel123
  9. 9Michael Connelly100
  10. 10Patricia Cornwell99

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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