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Joseph Finder portraitJoseph Finder

Charting Feb 8, 2004Feb 17, 2019 · 12 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.13%
week of Sep 23, 2007
Career Power
34
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
12
September 2006 – September 2007
Peak Five Years
21
September 2002 – September 2007
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Sep 9, 2007
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

9 books · 34 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
Power Play#7312.0
Paranoia#1424.3
Suspicion#1213.2
Killer Instinct#1312.8
Vanished#1312.8
The Fixer#1412.4
Guilty Minds#1412.4
Judgment#1412.4
Company Man#1512.1

At their peak

2006 in books

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

  1. 1James Patterson312
  2. 2Mitch Albom312
  3. 3Khaled Hosseini225
  4. 4Janet Evanovich204
  5. 5Danielle Steel121
  6. 6Jodi Picoult118
  7. 7David Baldacci105
  8. 8Michael Ledwidge101
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks99
  10. 10J. R. R. Tolkien. Christopher Tolkien92

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.