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John Lescroart

Charting Feb 3, 2002Feb 10, 2019 · 25 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.62%
week of Mar 12, 2006
Career Power
93
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
32
February 2006 – February 2007
Peak Five Years
62
February 2002 – February 2007
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Feb 16, 2003
Comebacks
1
Feb 2006

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

13 books · 93 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 Hunt Club#8519.4
The Suspect#7212.7
The First Law#4212.0
The Oath#11410.6
Betrayal#827.9
The Second Chair#1027.0
Damage#1225.6
Treasure Hunt#815.5
A Plague of Secrets#1213.2
The Rule of Law#1312.8
Fatal#1412.4
The Hunter#1611.9
The Ophelia Cut#1611.8

At their peak

2006 in books

John Lescroart's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2006 to February 2007. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson336
  2. 2Mitch Albom226
  3. 3Dan Brown169
  4. 4Janet Evanovich167
  5. 5Stephen King158
  6. 6Danielle Steel134
  7. 7Dean Koontz120
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark117
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks113
  10. 10Nora Roberts105

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.