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Mario Puzo. Completed by Carol Gino

Charting Oct 21, 2001Oct 21, 2001 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.23%
week of Oct 21, 2001
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
October 2000 – October 2001
Peak Five Years
2
November 1996 – October 2001
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of Oct 21, 2001
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 · 2 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 Family#1512.1

At their peak

2000 in books

Mario Puzo. Completed by Carol Gino's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2000 to October 2001. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson347
  2. 2Danielle Steel250
  3. 3John Grisham210
  4. 4Stephen King166
  5. 5Mary Higgins Clark163
  6. 6Lalita Tademy142
  7. 7Barbara Kingsolver122
  8. 8Terry McMillan122
  9. 9Patricia Cornwell115
  10. 10John Sandford100

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.