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Matthew Pearl

Charting Mar 16, 2003Jun 11, 2006 · 6 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
1.50%
week of Apr 13, 2003
Career Power
20
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
18
April 2002 – April 2003
Peak Five Years
20
June 2001 – June 2006
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Mar 23, 2003
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

2 books · 20 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 Dante Club#9517.6
The Poe Shadow#1512.1

At their peak

2002 in books

Matthew Pearl's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2002 to April 2003. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Alice Sebold458
  2. 2John Grisham314
  3. 3James Patterson224
  4. 4Danielle Steel189
  5. 5Stephen King153
  6. 6Tom Clancy141
  7. 7Michael Crichton127
  8. 8Jean M. Auel116
  9. 9Emma McLaughlin108
  10. 10Nicola Kraus108

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.