Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jimmy Carter
Charting Feb 5, 1995 → Jan 11, 2004 · 12 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hornet's Nest | #6 | 6 | 29.1 | ||
| Always a Reckoning | #9 | 6 | 21.9 |
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:
- 1Dan Brown539
- 2John Grisham360
- 3Alice Sebold291
- 4James Patterson233
- 5Nicholas Sparks197
- 6Mitch Albom183
- 7Danielle Steel166
- 8Lauren Weisberger142
- 9Dean Koontz115
- 10Robert Jordan100
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.