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Michel Faber portraitMichel Faber

Charting Sep 29, 2002Feb 2, 2003 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.38%
week of Nov 3, 2002
Career Power
19
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
19
February 2002 – February 2003
Peak Five Years
19
February 1998 – February 2003
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Oct 13, 2002
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

1 book · 19 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 Crimson Petal and the White#9618.9

At their peak

2002 in books

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

  1. 1Alice Sebold346
  2. 2John Grisham323
  3. 3James Patterson216
  4. 4Danielle Steel189
  5. 5Stephen King168
  6. 6Tom Clancy141
  7. 7Mattie J.T. Stepanek122
  8. 8Emma McLaughlin119
  9. 9Nicola Kraus119
  10. 10Jean M. Auel116

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.