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Lorrie Moore portraitLorrie Moore

Charting Oct 11, 1998Mar 16, 2014 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.17%
week of Oct 4, 2009
Career Power
22
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
12
October 2008 – October 2009
Peak Five Years
15
March 2009 – March 2014
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Sep 20, 2009
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

3 books · 22 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
A Gate at the Stairs#10312.0
Birds of America#1436.9
Bark#1312.8

At their peak

2008 in books

Lorrie Moore's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2008 to October 2009. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephenie Meyer272
  2. 2James Patterson239
  3. 3David Wroblewski193
  4. 4John Grisham145
  5. 5Kathryn Stockett144
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks137
  7. 7Janet Evanovich127
  8. 8David Baldacci124
  9. 9Charlaine Harris111
  10. 10Patricia Cornwell101

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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