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Jonathan Safran Foer portraitJonathan Safran Foer

Charting May 12, 2002Oct 16, 2016 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.31%
week of Oct 16, 2016
Career Power
30
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
15
October 2015 – October 2016
Peak Five Years
15
October 2011 – October 2016
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Sep 25, 2016
Comebacks
1
Oct 2016, after 11 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

3 books · 30 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
Here I Am#7415.0
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close#12512.5
Everything Is Illuminated#1512.1

At their peak

2015 in books

Jonathan Safran Foer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2015 to October 2016. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Anthony Doerr338
  2. 2Paula Hawkins303
  3. 3James Patterson225
  4. 4Kristin Hannah224
  5. 5John Grisham187
  6. 6Stephen King178
  7. 7Danielle Steel153
  8. 8David Baldacci148
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks145
  10. 10Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney115

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.