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Ian Doescher portraitIan Doescher

Charting Jul 21, 2013Jul 20, 2014 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.27%
week of Sep 8, 2013
Career Power
25
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
22
April 2013 – April 2014
Peak Five Years
25
August 2009 – July 2014
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Jul 28, 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

3 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
William Shakespeare's Star Wars#10617.2
William Shakespeare's the Empire Striketh Back#1225.0
William Shakespeare's the Jedi Doth Return#1213.2

At their peak

2013 in books

Ian Doescher's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2013 to April 2014. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown266
  2. 2Donna Tartt250
  3. 3John Grisham214
  4. 4James Patterson203
  5. 5Khaled Hosseini192
  6. 6Gillian Flynn187
  7. 7Stephen King162
  8. 8Mitch Albom130
  9. 9Sue Monk Kidd128
  10. 10Robert Galbraith127

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.