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Sneaky Pie Brown portraitSneaky Pie Brown

Charting Mar 18, 2001Apr 22, 2012 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.30%
week of Mar 17, 2002
Career Power
13
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
3
March 2001 – March 2002
Peak Five Years
10
March 2001 – March 2006
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.79%
week of Mar 17, 2002
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

8 books · 13 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
Catch as Cat Canwith Rita Mae Brown#812.8
The Tail of the Tip-Offwith Rita Mae Brown#1222.6
Sour Pusswith Rita Mae Brown#912.4
Whisker of Evilwith Rita Mae Brown#1411.2
Cat of the Centurywith Rita Mae Brown#1411.2
The Big Cat Napwith Rita Mae Brown#1411.2
Claws and Effectwith Rita Mae Brown#1511.0
The Purrfect Murderwith Rita Mae Brown#1610.9

At their peak

2001 in books

Sneaky Pie Brown's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2001 to March 2002. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham374
  2. 2James Patterson334
  3. 3Danielle Steel250
  4. 4Jonathan Franzen216
  5. 5Stephen King191
  6. 6Mary Higgins Clark150
  7. 7Mattie J.T. Stepanek147
  8. 8Lalita Tademy146
  9. 9Jan Karon128
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks112

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.