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Perri O'Shaughnessy

Charting Aug 27, 2000Aug 18, 2002 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.26%
week of Aug 27, 2000
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
September 1999 – August 2000
Peak Five Years
4
August 1997 – August 2002
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Aug 27, 2000
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

2 books · 4 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
Move to Strike#1412.4
Unfit to Practice#1512.1

At their peak

1999 in books

Perri O'Shaughnessy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1999 to August 2000. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1J. K. Rowling1,182
  2. 2John Grisham278
  3. 3Danielle Steel274
  4. 4James Patterson181
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks132
  6. 6Michael Crichton122
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark112
  8. 8Stephen King106
  9. 9Jerry B. Jenkins103
  10. 10Tim LaHaye103

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.