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Philip Kerr portraitPhilip Kerr

Charting May 5, 2013Apr 28, 2019 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.46%
week of Apr 28, 2019
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
5
April 2015 – April 2016
Peak Five Years
11
April 2014 – April 2019
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.19%
week of Apr 28, 2019
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

5 books · 14 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
Metropolis#1014.2
A Man Without Breath#1312.8
The Other Side of Silence#1312.8
Prussian Blue#1412.4
The Lady from Zagreb#1512.1

At their peak

2015 in books

Philip Kerr's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2015 to April 2016. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Paula Hawkins510
  2. 2Anthony Doerr507
  3. 3Kristin Hannah253
  4. 4Harper Lee223
  5. 5James Patterson216
  6. 6John Grisham187
  7. 7Stephen King170
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks145
  9. 9David Baldacci143
  10. 10Danielle Steel86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.