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Tom Perrotta portraitTom Perrotta

Charting Apr 4, 2004Sep 10, 2017 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.31%
week of Sep 25, 2011
Career Power
37
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
14
September 2016 – September 2017
Peak Five Years
18
October 2006 – September 2011
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Sep 18, 2011
Comebacks
1
Sep 2017, after 6 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

4 books · 37 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
Mrs. Fletcher#8414.0
The Leftovers#6212.8
The Abstinence Teacher#1325.2
Little Children#1324.7

At their peak

2016 in books

Tom Perrotta's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2016 to September 2017. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham379
  2. 2James Patterson264
  3. 3Colson Whitehead216
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks215
  5. 5Danielle Steel196
  6. 6Amor Towles164
  7. 7David Baldacci157
  8. 8Paula Hawkins157
  9. 9Jodi Picoult138
  10. 10Michael Connelly132

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.