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Justin Cronin portraitJustin Cronin

Charting Jun 27, 2010May 21, 2023 · 15 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20102023

    First crown Jun 2016

Peak Power
3.41%
week of Aug 8, 2010
Career Power
92
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
49
August 2009 – August 2010
Peak Five Years
69
December 2007 – November 2012
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jun 12, 2016
Comebacks
2
Nov 2012 · Jun 2016

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

4 books · 92 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 Passage#3849.2
The City of Mirrors#1320.0
The Twelve#2319.4
The Ferryman#1213.2

At their peak

2009 in books

Justin Cronin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2009 to August 2010. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Kathryn Stockett546
  2. 2Dan Brown318
  3. 3James Patterson239
  4. 4Stieg Larsson221
  5. 5Charlaine Harris144
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks139
  7. 7Stephen King94
  8. 8David Baldacci90
  9. 9Pat Conroy89
  10. 10Jodi Picoult81

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.