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Jimmy Carter

Charting Feb 5, 1995Jan 11, 2004 · 12 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.46%
week of Jan 11, 2004
Career Power
51
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
29
January 2003 – January 2004
Peak Five Years
29
January 1999 – January 2004
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.39%
week of Dec 21, 2003
Comebacks
1
Dec 2003, after 9 quiet years

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

2 books · 51 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 Hornet's Nest#6629.1
Always a Reckoning#9621.9

At their peak

2003 in books

Jimmy Carter's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2003 to January 2004. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown539
  2. 2John Grisham360
  3. 3Alice Sebold291
  4. 4James Patterson233
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks197
  6. 6Mitch Albom183
  7. 7Danielle Steel166
  8. 8Lauren Weisberger142
  9. 9Dean Koontz115
  10. 10Robert Jordan100

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s.