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Joe Musser

Charting Sep 22, 2002Oct 23, 2005 · 4 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
0.73%
week of Sep 29, 2002
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
7
September 2001 – September 2002
Peak Five Years
9
October 2000 – October 2005
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Sep 29, 2002
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 · 9 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
Mission Compromisedwith Oliver North#426.9
The Jericho Sanctionwith Oliver North#1311.4
The Assassinswith Oliver North#1411.2

At their peak

2001 in books

Joe Musser's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2001 to September 2002. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham357
  2. 2James Patterson224
  3. 3Jonathan Franzen218
  4. 4Mattie J.T. Stepanek191
  5. 5Danielle Steel186
  6. 6Stephen King146
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark135
  8. 8Alice Sebold133
  9. 9Jean M. Auel116
  10. 10Emma McLaughlin115

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.