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James Luceno

Charting Jun 17, 2001Jan 8, 2017 · 13 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
1.24%
week of Feb 5, 2012
Career Power
49
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
15
December 2004 – December 2005
Peak Five Years
28
December 2000 – December 2005
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.65%
week of Jan 29, 2012
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

7 books · 49 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
Darth Plagueis#4212.4
Labyrinth of Evil#928.0
Dark Lord: the Rise of Darth Vader#1127.3
The New Jedi Order: the Unifying Force#1027.0
Catalyst#1026.3
Cloak of Deception#1225.9
Millennium Falcon#1412.4

At their peak

2004 in books

James Luceno's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 2004 to December 2005. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown517
  2. 2James Patterson251
  3. 3Nicholas Sparks240
  4. 4Mitch Albom229
  5. 5Sue Monk Kidd194
  6. 6Elizabeth Kostova191
  7. 7John Grisham138
  8. 8Danielle Steel128
  9. 9Michael Crichton108
  10. 10Michael Connelly100

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.