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Charting May 4, 2003 → Jun 6, 2021 · 55 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.71%
week of Sep 21, 2003
Career Power
288
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
142
October 2002 – October 2003
Peak Five Years
149
October 2000 – October 2005
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
55
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Jun 23, 2013
Comebacks
3
Jun 2008 · Jul 2013, after 5 quiet years · Jul 2018, after 5 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

7 books · 288 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 Devil Wears Prada#424141.6
Chasing Harry Winston#41159.0
When Life Gives You Lululemons#71146.3
Revenge Wears Prada#3424.1
Last Night at Chateau Marmont#927.6
Everyone Worth Knowing#1027.0
Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty#1412.4

At their peak

2002 in books →

Lauren Weisberger's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2002 to October 2003. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Alice Sebold439
  2. 2Dan Brown361
  3. 3John Grisham341
  4. 4James Patterson238
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks211
  6. 6Danielle Steel188
  7. 7Lauren Weisberger142
  8. 8Michael Crichton127
  9. 9Tom Clancy120
  10. 10Janet Evanovich116

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.