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S. M. Stirling

Charting Sep 13, 2009Sep 23, 2012 · 4 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
0.35%
week of Sep 25, 2011
Career Power
12
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
3
October 2009 – September 2010
Peak Five Years
12
October 2007 – September 2012
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.16%
week of Sep 26, 2010
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

4 books · 12 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 High King of Montival#1213.2
The Tears of the Sun#1213.2
The Sword of the Lady#1312.8
Lord of Mountains#1312.8

At their peak

2009 in books

S. M. Stirling's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2009 to September 2010. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Kathryn Stockett542
  2. 2Dan Brown318
  3. 3Stieg Larsson260
  4. 4James Patterson242
  5. 5Charlaine Harris125
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks125
  7. 7Stephen King94
  8. 8David Baldacci90
  9. 9Jodi Picoult81
  10. 10John Grisham70

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.