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Kent Haruf portraitKent Haruf

Charting Dec 5, 1999Jul 5, 2015 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.07%
week of Jul 5, 2015
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
12
January 1999 – January 2000
Peak Five Years
12
January 1995 – January 2000
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Jun 14, 2015
Comebacks
1
Jul 2015, after 15 quiet years

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 · 24 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
Plainsong#13512.2
Our Souls at Night#9412.1

At their peak

1999 in books

Kent Haruf's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1999 to January 2000. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1J. K. Rowling849
  2. 2Stephen King256
  3. 3John Grisham254
  4. 4Danielle Steel235
  5. 5Patricia Cornwell199
  6. 6Thomas Harris175
  7. 7Janet Fitch165
  8. 8Maeve Binchy152
  9. 9Tom Wolfe112
  10. 10James Patterson109

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.