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Paula McLain

Charting Mar 13, 2011May 2, 2021 · 39 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
3.03%
week of Sep 13, 2015
Career Power
137
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
91
March 2011 – February 2012
Peak Five Years
131
October 2010 – October 2015
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
39
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Aug 16, 2015
Comebacks
1
Aug 2015

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 · 137 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
The Paris Wife#73193.2
Circling the Sun#4638.2
When the Stars Go Dark#1213.2
Love and Ruin#1412.4

At their peak

2011 in books

Paula McLain's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2011 to February 2012. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson273
  2. 2Stieg Larsson207
  3. 3George R. R. Martin180
  4. 4David Baldacci173
  5. 5Stephen King157
  6. 6John Grisham146
  7. 7Janet Evanovich129
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks122
  9. 9Charlaine Harris107
  10. 10Jean M. Auel103

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.