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Michael Ledwidge

Charting Feb 25, 2007 → Sep 18, 2016 · 88 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power: 3.79%; week of Sep 9, 2007
Career Power: 371; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 105; October 2006 – October 2007
Peak Five Years: 257; September 2006 – September 2011
Top-five weeks: 5; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 88; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 7.41%; week of Feb 25, 2007
Comebacks: 1; Mar 2009

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

12 books · 371 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 Quickiewith James Patterson	#1July 2007	12	July 2007 – October 2007	57.4	114.5
Step on a Crackwith James Patterson	#1February 2007	11	February 2007 – May 2007	47.1	93.5
Run for Your Lifewith James Patterson	#2February 2009	9	February 2009 – April 2009	41.0	82.0
Tick Tockwith James Patterson	#1February 2011	8	February 2011 – April 2011	39.8	79.6
Worst Casewith James Patterson	#1February 2010	8	February 2010 – April 2010	36.1	71.9
Now You See Herwith James Patterson	#1July 2011	9	July 2011 – September 2011	35.8	71.7
Burnwith James Patterson	#1October 2014	5	October 2014 – November 2014	22.2	44.3
Bullseyewith James Patterson	#1August 2016	5	August 2016 – September 2016	20.2	40.4
I, Michael Bennettwith James Patterson	#2July 2012	6	July 2012 – September 2012	20.2	40.3
Zoowith James Patterson	#2September 2012	6	September 2012 – October 2012	17.7	35.3
Alertwith James Patterson	#3August 2015	4	August 2015 – September 2015	16.9	33.7
Gonewith James Patterson	#3October 2013	5	October 2013 – November 2013	16.7	33.4

At their peak

2006 in books →

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

1James Patterson320
2Mitch Albom312
3Khaled Hosseini251
4Janet Evanovich204
5Danielle Steel121
6Jodi Picoult118
7David Baldacci105
8Michael Ledwidge105
9Nicholas Sparks99
10J. R. R. Tolkien. Christopher Tolkien92

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.