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Paulo Coelho portraitPaulo Coelho

Charting Oct 16, 2011Oct 14, 2018 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.04%
week of Sep 21, 2014
Career Power
62
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
24
October 2013 – October 2014
Peak Five Years
60
October 2009 – October 2014
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Apr 21, 2013
Comebacks
2
Apr 2013 · Sep 2014

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 · 62 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
Adultery#2424.2
Manuscript Found in Accra#2322.0
Aleph#6213.6
Hippie#1512.1

At their peak

2013 in books

Paulo Coelho's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2013 to October 2014. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Donna Tartt474
  2. 2Stephen King223
  3. 3John Grisham218
  4. 4James Patterson204
  5. 5Sue Monk Kidd186
  6. 6Mitch Albom130
  7. 7Janet Evanovich120
  8. 8David Baldacci120
  9. 9Liane Moriarty116
  10. 10Anthony Doerr94

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.