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Ted Chiang portraitTed Chiang

Charting May 26, 2019Jun 9, 2019 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.61%
week of Jun 9, 2019
Career Power
6
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
6
June 2018 – June 2019
Peak Five Years
6
June 2014 – June 2019
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of May 26, 2019
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

1 book · 6 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.

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At their peak

2018 in books

Ted Chiang's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2018 to June 2019. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Delia Owens387
  2. 2James Patterson322
  3. 3Stephen King228
  4. 4John Grisham211
  5. 5George R. R. Martin163
  6. 6David Baldacci152
  7. 7Danielle Steel145
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks138
  9. 9Alex Michaelides106
  10. 10Bill Clinton102

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.