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Junot Díaz portraitJunot Díaz

Charting Sep 23, 2007Nov 4, 2012 · 11 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.56%
week of Oct 28, 2012
Career Power
43
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
32
November 2011 – November 2012
Peak Five Years
38
November 2007 – November 2012
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Sep 30, 2012
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

2 books · 43 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
This Is How You Lose Her#6631.8
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao#13511.2

At their peak

2011 in books

Junot Díaz's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 2011 to November 2012. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson274
  2. 2John Grisham270
  3. 3Gillian Flynn250
  4. 4Stephen King233
  5. 5George R. R. Martin176
  6. 6David Baldacci136
  7. 7Janet Evanovich108
  8. 8P.D. James106
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks93
  10. 10Vince Flynn87

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.