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Paul Kemprecos

Charting Jun 23, 2002Jul 12, 2009 · 34 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.05%
week of Jul 28, 2002
Career Power
132
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
28
August 2001 – August 2002
Peak Five Years
106
June 2002 – July 2007
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
34
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Sep 18, 2005
Comebacks
2
Jul 2007 · Jun 2009

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

6 books · 132 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
Fire Icewith Clive Cussler#2727.8
White Deathwith Clive Cussler#3624.8
Polar Shiftwith Clive Cussler#1524.0
Lost Citywith Clive Cussler#2622.6
The Navigatorwith Clive Cussler#5617.4
Medusawith Clive Cussler#2415.7

At their peak

2001 in books

Paul Kemprecos's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2001 to August 2002. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham357
  2. 2James Patterson288
  3. 3Jonathan Franzen227
  4. 4Danielle Steel186
  5. 5Mattie J.T. Stepanek181
  6. 6Stephen King146
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark135
  8. 8Clive Cussler121
  9. 9Jean M. Auel116
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks112

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.