Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Alan Furst
Charting Sep 15, 2002 → Jun 19, 2016 · 17 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.41%
- week of Jul 22, 2012
- Career Power
- 81
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 43
- August 2011 – August 2012
- Peak Five Years
- 62
- June 2011 – June 2016
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 17
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jul 1, 2012
- 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
7 books · 81 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mission to Paris | #2 | 6 | 43.1 | ||
| Midnight in Europe | #6 | 3 | 12.8 | ||
| The Foreign Correspondent | #13 | 3 | 6.9 | ||
| A Hero of France | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| Blood of Victory | #11 | 2 | 6.0 | ||
| Spies of the Balkans | #10 | 1 | 4.2 | ||
| The Spies of Warsaw | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
2011 in books →Alan Furst's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2011 to August 2012. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Patterson280
- 2John Grisham270
- 3George R. R. Martin241
- 4Stephen King233
- 5David Baldacci140
- 6Nicholas Sparks122
- 7Janet Evanovich122
- 8P.D. James106
- 9John Sandford90
- 10Gillian Flynn89
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.