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Every ranking and score here is the ChartReign Power model: an author's slice of all list points in a week, added up over a career. Built on published list positions; not a list published by anyone else. How it works

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Bestseller lists: NYT Hardcover Fiction (The New York Times, from 1931; lists to 2020 from the Post45 Data Collective, CC BY 4.0).
Author portraits: Wikimedia Commons contributors, freely licensed and credited on each page.
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