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Richard Preston

Charting Dec 25, 2011Jan 15, 2012 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.56%
week of Jan 15, 2012
Career Power
6
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
6
January 2011 – January 2012
Peak Five Years
6
January 2007 – January 2012
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of Dec 25, 2011
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 · 6 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.

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At their peak

2011 in books

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

  1. 1James Patterson266
  2. 2Stieg Larsson238
  3. 3David Baldacci178
  4. 4George R. R. Martin168
  5. 5John Grisham156
  6. 6Janet Evanovich118
  7. 7Stephen King109
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks108
  9. 9Charlaine Harris107
  10. 10Jean M. Auel103

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.