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Sarah Dunant

Charting Mar 7, 2004Apr 9, 2006 · 15 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.41%
week of Apr 2, 2006
Career Power
63
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
32
May 2003 – May 2004
Peak Five Years
63
April 2001 – April 2006
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.37%
week of Mar 5, 2006
Comebacks
1
Mar 2006

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 · 63 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 Birth of Venus#9932.3
In the Company of the Courtesan#6630.9

At their peak

2003 in books

Sarah Dunant's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2003 to May 2004. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown785
  2. 2Mitch Albom389
  3. 3John Grisham349
  4. 4James Patterson222
  5. 5Danielle Steel159
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks151
  7. 7Lauren Weisberger125
  8. 8Alice Sebold118
  9. 9Tom Clancy97
  10. 10Patricia Cornwell86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.