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James Frey portraitJames Frey

Charting Jun 1, 2008Jun 8, 2008 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.81%
week of Jun 8, 2008
Career Power
8
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
8
June 2007 – June 2008
Peak Five Years
8
June 2003 – June 2008
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Jun 1, 2008
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

1 book · 8 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.

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At their peak

2007 in books

James Frey's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2007 to June 2008. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Khaled Hosseini482
  2. 2James Patterson298
  3. 3John Grisham291
  4. 4Ken Follett181
  5. 5Janet Evanovich144
  6. 6David Baldacci129
  7. 7Dean Koontz125
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks114
  9. 9Danielle Steel79
  10. 10Jodi Picoult77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.