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Peter Heller

Charting Sep 2, 2012Sep 9, 2012 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.53%
week of Sep 9, 2012
Career Power
5
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
5
September 2011 – September 2012
Peak Five Years
5
September 2007 – September 2012
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Sep 2, 2012
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 · 5 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 Dog Stars#1325.2

At their peak

2011 in books

Peter Heller's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2011 to September 2012. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson277
  2. 2John Grisham270
  3. 3Stephen King233
  4. 4George R. R. Martin203
  5. 5Gillian Flynn162
  6. 6David Baldacci136
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks122
  8. 8Janet Evanovich108
  9. 9P.D. James106
  10. 10John Sandford90

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.