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Charting Oct 20, 2002Oct 27, 2002 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.14%
week of Oct 27, 2002
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
11
October 2001 – October 2002
Peak Five Years
11
November 1997 – October 2002
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Oct 20, 2002
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 · 11 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 New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way#7211.1

At their peak

2001 in books

Walter Jon Williams's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2001 to October 2002. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham357
  2. 2James Patterson207
  3. 3Mattie J.T. Stepanek191
  4. 4Alice Sebold188
  5. 5Danielle Steel186
  6. 6Jonathan Franzen178
  7. 7Stephen King157
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark135
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks126
  10. 10Emma McLaughlin119

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.