Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Orson Scott Card
Charting Sep 19, 1999 → Aug 5, 2012 · 14 weeks with chart power
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- Peak Power
- 1.59%
- week of Feb 4, 2001
- Career Power
- 51
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 17
- February 2000 – February 2001
- Peak Five Years
- 40
- April 2000 – April 2005
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 14
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.43%
- week of Jan 21, 2001
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 2002
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
7 books · 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow of the Hegemon | #5 | 3 | 16.9 | ||
| Shadow Puppets | #7 | 4 | 13.3 | ||
| Shadow of the Giant | #10 | 3 | 10.2 | ||
| Shadows in Flight | #8 | 1 | 5.5 | ||
| Ender's Shadow | #15 | 1 | 2.2 | ||
| Ender in Exile | #16 | 1 | 1.8 | ||
| Earth Unawarewith Aaron Johnston | #14 | 1 | 1.2 |
At their peak
2000 in books →Orson Scott Card's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2000 to February 2001. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J. K. Rowling508
- 2Danielle Steel292
- 3John Grisham280
- 4James Patterson202
- 5Tom Clancy183
- 6Mary Higgins Clark152
- 7Jerry B. Jenkins133
- 8Tim LaHaye133
- 9Nicholas Sparks115
- 10Patricia Cornwell115
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.