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Josh Bazell

Charting Feb 1, 2009Feb 8, 2009 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.53%
week of Feb 8, 2009
Career Power
5
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
5
February 2008 – February 2009
Peak Five Years
5
February 2004 – February 2009
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Feb 8, 2009
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 · 5 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
Beat the Reaper#1325.2

At their peak

2008 in books

Josh Bazell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2008 to February 2009. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephenie Meyer307
  2. 2David Wroblewski276
  3. 3James Patterson222
  4. 4John Grisham158
  5. 5Janet Evanovich140
  6. 6Stephen King117
  7. 7Patricia Cornwell111
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks110
  9. 9David Baldacci109
  10. 10Emily Giffin84

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.