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Paul Auster portraitPaul Auster

Charting Feb 19, 2017Feb 19, 2017 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.30%
week of Feb 19, 2017
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
3
February 2016 – February 2017
Peak Five Years
3
February 2012 – February 2017
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Feb 19, 2017
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 · 3 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
4 3 2 1#1312.8

At their peak

2016 in books

Paul Auster's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2016 to February 2017. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson248
  2. 2Colson Whitehead222
  3. 3Anthony Doerr218
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks204
  5. 5John Grisham203
  6. 6Paula Hawkins189
  7. 7Danielle Steel186
  8. 8Kristin Hannah166
  9. 9David Baldacci163
  10. 10Ruth Ware129

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.