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Philipp Meyer portraitPhilipp Meyer

Charting Jun 16, 2013Jul 14, 2013 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.30%
week of Jul 14, 2013
Career Power
15
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
15
July 2012 – July 2013
Peak Five Years
15
July 2008 – July 2013
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Jun 16, 2013
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 · 15 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 Son#10515.2

At their peak

2012 in books

Philipp Meyer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 2012 to July 2013. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Gillian Flynn516
  2. 2James Patterson241
  3. 3John Grisham173
  4. 4David Baldacci147
  5. 5J. K. Rowling133
  6. 6George R. R. Martin120
  7. 7Janet Evanovich100
  8. 8Dan Brown100
  9. 9Ken Follett87
  10. 10Mitch Albom86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.