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Linda Howard

Charting Sep 13, 1998 → Jan 20, 2013 · 40 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power: 2.69%; week of Aug 26, 2001
Career Power: 188; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 47; May 2001 – May 2002
Peak Five Years: 104; August 1999 – August 2004
Top-five weeks: 8; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 40; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 8.34%; week of Aug 13, 2000
Comebacks: 2; Jul 2006 · Sep 2010

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

16 books · 188 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.

Title	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Book Power
Open Season	#5August 2001	6	August 2001 – September 2001	33.7	33.7
Mr. Perfect	#5August 2000	6	August 2000 – September 2000	31.4	31.4
Up Close and Dangerous	#6August 2007	3	August 2007 – August 2007	17.3	17.2
Cover of Night	#6July 2006	4	July 2006 – August 2006	15.7	15.7
Dying to Please	#6May 2002	3	May 2002 – May 2002	13.7	13.7
All the Queen's Men	#11August 1999	5	August 1999 – September 1999	13.5	13.0
Veil of Night	#5August 2010	2	August 2010 – September 2010	10.8	10.7
Prey	#5September 2011	1	September 2011	8.3	8.3
Burn	#6July 2009	1	July 2009	7.3	7.3
Death Angel	#9July 2008	2	July 2008 – July 2008	7.2	7.2
KISS Me While I Sleep	#10August 2004	2	August 2004 – August 2004	7.1	6.9
Ice	#8November 2009	1	November 2009	5.5	5.5
Shadow Woman	#8January 2013	1	January 2013	5.5	5.5
Cry No More	#9November 2003	1	November 2003	4.8	4.8
Killing Time	#9July 2005	1	July 2005	4.8	4.8
Now You See Her	#16September 1998	1	September 1998	1.8	1.8

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2001 in books →

Linda Howard's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2001 to May 2002. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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