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Nick Hornby portraitNick Hornby

Charting Jul 29, 2001Mar 1, 2015 · 11 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.67%
week of Jul 24, 2005
Career Power
49
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
36
August 2004 – August 2005
Peak Five Years
40
October 2004 – October 2009
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Jun 26, 2005
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

4 books · 49 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
A Long Way Down#5736.1
Funny Girl#927.2
Juliet, Naked#1113.6
How to Be Good#1412.4

At their peak

2004 in books

Nick Hornby's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2004 to August 2005. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown654
  2. 2Mitch Albom386
  3. 3James Patterson255
  4. 4Sue Monk Kidd155
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks151
  6. 6John Grisham138
  7. 7Danielle Steel131
  8. 8Janet Evanovich110
  9. 9Michael Crichton108
  10. 10Stephen King89

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.