Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Seamus Heaney
Charting Apr 2, 2000 → May 28, 2000 · 9 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beowulf | #8 | 9 | 40.0 |
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:
- 1J. K. Rowling1,243
- 2John Grisham270
- 3Danielle Steel250
- 4Thomas Harris177
- 5Stephen King166
- 6Janet Fitch142
- 7Nicholas Sparks132
- 8Michael Crichton122
- 9Mary Higgins Clark111
- 10Nelson DeMille101
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2000s.