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Sean Williams portraitSean Williams

Charting Sep 7, 2008Aug 15, 2010 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20082010

    First crown Sep 2008

Peak Power
2.10%
week of Sep 28, 2008
Career Power
31
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
25
October 2007 – September 2008
Peak Five Years
31
August 2005 – August 2010
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Sep 7, 2008
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

2 books · 31 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 Force Unleashed#1424.9
The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance#1225.9

At their peak

2007 in books

Sean Williams's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2007 to September 2008. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham291
  2. 2James Patterson267
  3. 3Khaled Hosseini258
  4. 4Stephenie Meyer189
  5. 5Ken Follett181
  6. 6Janet Evanovich138
  7. 7David Baldacci126
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks114
  9. 9David Wroblewski103
  10. 10Dean Koontz85

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.