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Karen Russell portraitKaren Russell

Charting Feb 27, 2011Mar 17, 2013 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.82%
week of Mar 13, 2011
Career Power
16
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
9
March 2010 – March 2011
Peak Five Years
16
March 2008 – March 2013
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.63%
week of Mar 6, 2011
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 · 16 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
Swamplandia!#1138.6
Vampires in the Lemon Grove#1237.4

At their peak

2010 in books

Karen Russell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2010 to March 2011. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stieg Larsson459
  2. 2Kathryn Stockett421
  3. 3James Patterson236
  4. 4John Grisham168
  5. 5Jonathan Franzen142
  6. 6David Baldacci108
  7. 7Ken Follett96
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks94
  9. 9Janet Evanovich84
  10. 10Lee Child84

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.