Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Matthew Pearl
Charting Mar 16, 2003 → Jun 11, 2006 · 6 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Dante Club | #9 | 5 | 17.6 | ||
| The Poe Shadow | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
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:
- 1Alice Sebold458
- 2John Grisham314
- 3James Patterson224
- 4Danielle Steel189
- 5Stephen King153
- 6Tom Clancy141
- 7Michael Crichton127
- 8Jean M. Auel116
- 9Emma McLaughlin108
- 10Nicola Kraus108
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2000s.