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Richard Ford portraitRichard Ford

Charting Jun 10, 2012Nov 23, 2014 · 8 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.71%
week of Jul 22, 2012
Career Power
36
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
34
July 2011 – July 2012
Peak Five Years
36
December 2009 – November 2014
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Jul 8, 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

2 books · 36 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
Canada#5734.0
Let Me Be Frank with You#1412.4

At their peak

2011 in books

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

  1. 1James Patterson279
  2. 2John Grisham264
  3. 3George R. R. Martin259
  4. 4Stephen King233
  5. 5David Baldacci149
  6. 6Janet Evanovich128
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks122
  8. 8P.D. James106
  9. 9Stieg Larsson93
  10. 10John Sandford90

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.