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Jonathan Lethem portraitJonathan Lethem

Charting Oct 5, 2003Oct 5, 2003 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.23%
week of Oct 5, 2003
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
October 2002 – October 2003
Peak Five Years
2
October 1998 – October 2003
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of Oct 5, 2003
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

1 book · 2 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 Fortress of Solitude#1512.1

At their peak

2002 in books

Jonathan Lethem's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2002 to October 2003. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Alice Sebold448
  2. 2Dan Brown350
  3. 3John Grisham328
  4. 4James Patterson238
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks212
  6. 6Danielle Steel188
  7. 7Lauren Weisberger139
  8. 8Michael Crichton127
  9. 9Tom Clancy122
  10. 10Janet Evanovich116

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.