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Stephenie Meyer portraitStephenie Meyer

Charting May 25, 2008Feb 19, 2017 · 66 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    2 crowns

    20082017

    Longest reign 2 weeks (May–Jun 2008) · First crown May 2008

Peak Power
9.17%
week of Apr 26, 2009
Career Power
502
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
433
May 2008 – May 2009
Peak Five Years
468
August 2004 – August 2009
Top-five weeks
37
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
66
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of May 25, 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 · 502 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 Host#159467.8
The Chemist#7734.1

At their peak

2008 in books

Stephenie Meyer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2008 to May 2009. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephenie Meyer433
  2. 2David Wroblewski311
  3. 3James Patterson218
  4. 4John Grisham145
  5. 5Janet Evanovich135
  6. 6Patricia Cornwell119
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks110
  8. 8David Baldacci108
  9. 9Annie Barrows88
  10. 10Mary Ann Shaffer88

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.