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Michael Chabon portraitMichael Chabon

Charting May 1, 1988Jan 15, 2017 · 24 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.62%
week of Jun 17, 2007
Career Power
106
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
46
July 2006 – July 2007
Peak Five Years
46
June 2002 – July 2007
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
24
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of May 20, 2007
Comebacks
3
May 2007, after 19 quiet years · Oct 2012, after 5 quiet years · Jan 2017

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

5 books · 106 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 Yiddish Policemen’S Union#2646.1
Telegraph Avenue#5525.0
Moonglow#11616.9
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh#12616.0
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay#1611.8

At their peak

2006 in books

Michael Chabon's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 2006 to July 2007. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson315
  2. 2Mitch Albom308
  3. 3Janet Evanovich223
  4. 4Danielle Steel138
  5. 5Dean Koontz121
  6. 6Jodi Picoult118
  7. 7Nora Roberts105
  8. 8David Baldacci105
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks99
  10. 10Michael Crichton83

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.