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Tess Gerritsen

Charting Sep 22, 1996 → Sep 3, 2017 · 36 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power: 2.21%; week of Sep 28, 2003
Career Power: 168; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 25; September 2002 – September 2003
Peak Five Years: 82; October 2002 – October 2007
Top-five weeks: 5; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 36; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 11.01%; week of Oct 1, 2006
Comebacks: 2; Sep 2005 · Jul 2011

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

14 books · 168 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.

Title	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Book Power
The Sinner	#4September 2003	4	September 2003 – September 2003	24.8	24.8
The Mephisto Club	#3October 2006	3	October 2006 – October 2006	21.3	21.3
Last to Die	#3September 2012	3	September 2012 – September 2012	19.4	19.4
The Silent Girl	#3July 2011	2	July 2011 – July 2011	14.6	14.6
The Bone Garden	#10October 2007	4	October 2007 – October 2007	13.9	13.8
Vanish	#7September 2005	3	September 2005 – September 2005	13.1	13.1
The Apprentice	#10September 2002	4	September 2002 – September 2002	12.2	12.2
Ice Cold	#10July 2010	3	July 2010 – August 2010	9.7	9.7
Body Double	#12September 2004	3	September 2004 – September 2004	8.5	8.3
The Keepsake	#7September 2008	2	September 2008 – October 2008	8.4	8.4
Die Again	#5January 2015	1	January 2015	8.3	8.3
I Know a Secret	#8September 2017	1	September 2017	5.5	5.5
The Surgeon	#13September 2001	2	September 2001 – September 2001	5.2	5.2
Harvest	#13September 1996	1	September 1996	2.8	2.8

At their peak

2002 in books →

Tess Gerritsen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2002 to September 2003. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.