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Mark Winegardner

Charting Dec 5, 2004Jan 9, 2005 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.66%
week of Jan 9, 2005
Career Power
21
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
21
January 2004 – January 2005
Peak Five Years
21
January 2000 – January 2005
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Dec 5, 2004
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 · 21 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 Godfather Returns#7621.2

At their peak

2004 in books

Mark Winegardner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2004 to January 2005. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown880
  2. 2Mitch Albom540
  3. 3James Patterson216
  4. 4Stephen King149
  5. 5John Grisham148
  6. 6Danielle Steel126
  7. 7Carl Hiaasen95
  8. 8Patricia Cornwell94
  9. 9Janet Evanovich91
  10. 10Dustin Thomason90

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.