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Susanna Clarke portraitSusanna Clarke

Charting Sep 19, 2004Oct 4, 2020 · 12 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.85%
week of Oct 24, 2004
Career Power
66
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
61
January 2004 – January 2005
Peak Five Years
61
January 2000 – January 2005
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.29%
week of Sep 26, 2004
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
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell#31161.0
Piranesi#914.8

At their peak

2004 in books

Susanna Clarke's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2004 to January 2005. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown878
  2. 2Mitch Albom538
  3. 3James Patterson210
  4. 4Stephen King143
  5. 5John Grisham142
  6. 6Danielle Steel126
  7. 7Carl Hiaasen95
  8. 8Janet Evanovich93
  9. 9Patricia Cornwell91
  10. 10Dustin Thomason90

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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