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Margaret Weis portraitMargaret Weis

Charting Aug 4, 1991Feb 23, 2025 · 11 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.32%
week of Jul 14, 2002
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
3
July 2001 – July 2002
Peak Five Years
8
July 1997 – July 2002
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of Jul 7, 2002
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

7 books · 14 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
Dragons of a Vanished Moonwith Tracy Hickman#1023.1
Dragons of a Lost Starwith Tracy Hickman#1222.5
Dragons of a Fallen Sunwith Tracy Hickman#1422.3
The Seventh Gatewith Tracy Hickman#1422.2
Dragonlance Chronicleswith Tracy Hickman#1111.9
Fire Seawith Tracy Hickman#1511.0
Dragons of Summer Flamewith Tracy Hickman#1511.0

At their peak

2001 in books

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

  1. 1John Grisham356
  2. 2James Patterson286
  3. 3Jonathan Franzen227
  4. 4Danielle Steel185
  5. 5Mattie J.T. Stepanek181
  6. 6Stephen King146
  7. 7Lalita Tademy130
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark128
  9. 9Clive Cussler115
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks112

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.