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Jay McInerney portraitJay McInerney

Charting Feb 19, 2006Feb 26, 2006 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.38%
week of Feb 26, 2006
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
March 2005 – February 2006
Peak Five Years
4
February 2001 – February 2006
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.82%
week of Feb 19, 2006
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 · 4 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 Good Life#1623.6

At their peak

2005 in books

Jay McInerney's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2005 to February 2006. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown503
  2. 2Nicholas Sparks311
  3. 3James Patterson302
  4. 4Sue Monk Kidd194
  5. 5Elizabeth Kostova191
  6. 6Danielle Steel123
  7. 7Mitch Albom110
  8. 8Patricia Cornwell106
  9. 9Michael Connelly100
  10. 10Sue Grafton92

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.