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Orson Scott Card portraitOrson Scott Card

Charting Sep 19, 1999Aug 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Shadow of the Hegemon#5316.9
Shadow Puppets#7413.3
Shadow of the Giant#10310.2
Shadows in Flight#815.5
Ender's Shadow#1512.2
Ender in Exile#1611.8
Earth Unawarewith Aaron Johnston#1411.2

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:

  1. 1J. K. Rowling508
  2. 2Danielle Steel292
  3. 3John Grisham280
  4. 4James Patterson202
  5. 5Tom Clancy183
  6. 6Mary Higgins Clark152
  7. 7Jerry B. Jenkins133
  8. 8Tim LaHaye133
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks115
  10. 10Patricia Cornwell115

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.