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Karen Joy Fowler portraitKaren Joy Fowler

Charting May 23, 2004Aug 15, 2004 · 13 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.82%
week of Jul 25, 2004
Career Power
47
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
47
August 2003 – August 2004
Peak Five Years
47
August 1999 – August 2004
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.52%
week of Jun 27, 2004
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 · 47 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.

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The Jane Austen Book Club#71347.4

At their peak

2003 in books

Karen Joy Fowler's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2003 to August 2004. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown855
  2. 2Mitch Albom512
  3. 3John Grisham304
  4. 4James Patterson193
  5. 5Stephen King144
  6. 6Danielle Steel138
  7. 7Tom Clancy97
  8. 8Patricia Cornwell86
  9. 9Janet Evanovich86
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks78

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.