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Sue Monk Kidd portraitSue Monk Kidd

Charting Apr 24, 2005Jun 14, 2020 · 57 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    4 crowns

    20052020

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Jan–Feb 2014) · First crown Jun 2005

Peak Power
7.89%
week of Jul 24, 2005
Career Power
415
share-weeks
Crowns
4
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
194
October 2004 – October 2005
Peak Five Years
194
October 2000 – October 2005
Top-five weeks
29
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
57
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.62%
week of Feb 2, 2014
Comebacks
1
Feb 2014, after 8 quiet years

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

3 books · 415 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 Mermaid Chair#124193.6
The Invention of Wings#127189.7
The Book of Longings#5631.7

At their peak

2004 in books

Sue Monk Kidd's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2004 to October 2005. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown599
  2. 2Mitch Albom316
  3. 3James Patterson246
  4. 4Sue Monk Kidd194
  5. 5Elizabeth Kostova171
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks156
  7. 7John Grisham138
  8. 8Danielle Steel132
  9. 9Michael Crichton108
  10. 10Janet Evanovich100

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.