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Stephen L. Carter portraitStephen L. Carter

Charting Jun 23, 2002 → Jul 15, 2007 · 12 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.15%
week of Aug 18, 2002
Career Power
66
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
65
September 2001 – September 2002
Peak Five Years
65
September 1997 – September 2002
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Jul 7, 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

2 books · 66 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 Emperor of Ocean Park#31164.6
New England White#1611.8

At their peak

2001 in books →

Stephen L. Carter's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2001 to September 2002. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham357
  2. 2James Patterson249
  3. 3Jonathan Franzen227
  4. 4Danielle Steel188
  5. 5Mattie J.T. Stepanek181
  6. 6Stephen King146
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark135
  8. 8Jean M. Auel116
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks112
  10. 10Jan Karon107

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.