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Seamus Heaney portraitSeamus Heaney

Charting Apr 2, 2000May 28, 2000 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.87%
week of May 28, 2000
Career Power
40
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
40
June 1999 – May 2000
Peak Five Years
40
June 1995 – May 2000
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.95%
week of Apr 16, 2000
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 · 40 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
Beowulf#8940.0

At their peak

1999 in books

Seamus Heaney's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1999 to May 2000. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1J. K. Rowling1,243
  2. 2John Grisham270
  3. 3Danielle Steel250
  4. 4Thomas Harris177
  5. 5Stephen King166
  6. 6Janet Fitch142
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks132
  8. 8Michael Crichton122
  9. 9Mary Higgins Clark111
  10. 10Nelson DeMille101

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.