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Robert Hicks

Charting Sep 18, 2005Nov 6, 2005 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.39%
week of Oct 16, 2005
Career Power
29
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
29
November 2004 – November 2005
Peak Five Years
29
November 2000 – November 2005
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Oct 2, 2005
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 · 29 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 Widow of the South#6629.5

At their peak

2004 in books

Robert Hicks's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 2004 to November 2005. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown564
  2. 2Mitch Albom281
  3. 3James Patterson244
  4. 4Sue Monk Kidd194
  5. 5Elizabeth Kostova189
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks171
  7. 7John Grisham138
  8. 8Danielle Steel132
  9. 9Michael Crichton108
  10. 10Janet Evanovich100

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.