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Lionel Shriver portraitLionel Shriver

Charting Apr 1, 2007Apr 8, 2007 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.54%
week of Apr 8, 2007
Career Power
5
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
5
April 2006 – April 2007
Peak Five Years
5
March 2002 – April 2007
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.16%
week of Apr 1, 2007
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 · 5 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 Post-Birthday World#1225.3

At their peak

2006 in books

Lionel Shriver's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2006 to April 2007. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson341
  2. 2Mitch Albom278
  3. 3Janet Evanovich223
  4. 4Danielle Steel156
  5. 5Dean Koontz120
  6. 6Mary Higgins Clark117
  7. 7Nora Roberts105
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks99
  9. 9Michael Crichton83
  10. 10Dan Brown74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.