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Jeff Lindsay portraitJeff Lindsay

Charting Oct 7, 2007Nov 6, 2011 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.60%
week of Sep 27, 2009
Career Power
12
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
6
October 2008 – September 2009
Peak Five Years
12
November 2006 – November 2011
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Sep 27, 2009
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 · 12 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
Dexter by Design#815.5
Dexter in the Dark#1113.7
Double Dexter#1412.4

At their peak

2008 in books

Jeff Lindsay's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2008 to September 2009. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephenie Meyer278
  2. 2James Patterson234
  3. 3David Wroblewski208
  4. 4John Grisham145
  5. 5Kathryn Stockett133
  6. 6Janet Evanovich127
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks125
  8. 8David Baldacci124
  9. 9Charlaine Harris105
  10. 10Patricia Cornwell101

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.