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Marisha Pessl

Charting Sep 8, 2013Sep 22, 2013 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.36%
week of Sep 22, 2013
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
14
September 2012 – September 2013
Peak Five Years
14
October 2008 – September 2013
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Sep 8, 2013
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 · 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
Night Film#6314.5

At their peak

2012 in books

Marisha Pessl's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2012 to September 2013. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Gillian Flynn444
  2. 2James Patterson253
  3. 3Dan Brown219
  4. 4Khaled Hosseini167
  5. 5John Grisham163
  6. 6David Baldacci146
  7. 7J. K. Rowling133
  8. 8Robert Galbraith107
  9. 9Ken Follett87
  10. 10George R. R. Martin82

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.