Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jonathan Franzen
Charting Sep 23, 2001 → Nov 7, 2021 · 55 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
5 crowns
20012021Longest reign 2 weeks (Oct 2001) · First crown Oct 2001
- Peak Power
- 8.02%
- week of Jan 27, 2002
- Career Power
- 402
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 5
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 227
- April 2001 – April 2002
- Peak Five Years
- 227
- April 1997 – April 2002
- Top-five weeks
- 26
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 55
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Oct 14, 2001
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 2010, after 8 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 books · 402 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 Corrections | #1 | 29 | 226.8 | ||
| Freedom | #1 | 19 | 141.6 | ||
| Purity | #6 | 4 | 18.1 | ||
| Crossroads | #4 | 3 | 15.5 |
At their peak
2001 in books →Jonathan Franzen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2001 to April 2002. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Grisham375
- 2James Patterson315
- 3Danielle Steel279
- 4Jonathan Franzen227
- 5Stephen King191
- 6Mattie J.T. Stepanek163
- 7Mary Higgins Clark150
- 8Lalita Tademy146
- 9Jan Karon128
- 10Nicholas Sparks112
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.