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Ian Caldwell

Charting May 30, 2004May 3, 2015 · 28 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
3.68%
week of Sep 19, 2004
Career Power
109
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
90
November 2003 – October 2004
Peak Five Years
90
October 1999 – October 2004
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.55%
week of Jun 20, 2004
Comebacks
1
Apr 2015, after 10 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

2 books · 109 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
The Rule of Fourwith Dustin Thomason#22290.0
The Fifth Gospel#11618.6

At their peak

2003 in books

Ian Caldwell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 2003 to October 2004. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown898
  2. 2Mitch Albom563
  3. 3John Grisham241
  4. 4James Patterson217
  5. 5Stephen King193
  6. 6Patricia Cornwell151
  7. 7Danielle Steel128
  8. 8Carl Hiaasen95
  9. 9Dustin Thomason90
  10. 10Ian Caldwell90

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.