Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Michael Chabon
Charting May 1, 1988 → Jan 15, 2017 · 24 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Yiddish Policemen’S Union | #2 | 6 | 46.1 | ||
| Telegraph Avenue | #5 | 5 | 25.0 | ||
| Moonglow | #11 | 6 | 16.9 | ||
| The Mysteries of Pittsburgh | #12 | 6 | 16.0 | ||
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
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:
- 1James Patterson315
- 2Mitch Albom308
- 3Janet Evanovich223
- 4Danielle Steel138
- 5Dean Koontz121
- 6Jodi Picoult118
- 7Nora Roberts105
- 8David Baldacci105
- 9Nicholas Sparks99
- 10Michael Crichton83
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.