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William R. Forstchen

Charting Jun 29, 2003Oct 4, 2015 · 7 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
0.46%
week of Jun 10, 2007
Career Power
15
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
6
May 2007 – May 2008
Peak Five Years
11
November 2004 – November 2009
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.63%
week of May 3, 2009
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

6 books · 15 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
Pearl Harborwith Newt Gingrich#724.5
One Second After#1113.6
One Year After#1412.4
Days of Infamywith Newt Gingrich#1111.8
Gettysburgwith Newt Gingrich#1211.6
To Try Men's Soulswith Newt Gingrich, Albert S. Hanser#1310.9

At their peak

2007 in books

William R. Forstchen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2007 to May 2008. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Khaled Hosseini496
  2. 2James Patterson302
  3. 3John Grisham289
  4. 4Ken Follett181
  5. 5Janet Evanovich144
  6. 6David Baldacci135
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks114
  8. 8Dean Koontz111
  9. 9Jodi Picoult89
  10. 10Maxine Paetro83

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.