Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Andrew Gross
Charting Mar 24, 2002 → May 11, 2014 · 47 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.46%
- week of Oct 8, 2006
- Career Power
- 217
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 55
- May 2006 – May 2007
- Peak Five Years
- 208
- October 2001 – October 2006
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 47
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.46%
- week of Mar 21, 2004
- Comebacks
- 1
- Aug 2005
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
9 books · 217 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judge & Jurywith James Patterson | #1 | 10 | 52.2 | ||
| Lifeguardwith James Patterson | #1 | 10 | 50.6 | ||
| 2nd Chancewith James Patterson | #1 | 8 | 38.6 | ||
| 3rd Degreewith James Patterson | #1 | 8 | 36.0 | ||
| The Jesterwith James Patterson | #1 | 7 | 30.2 | ||
| The Blue Zone | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| The Dark Tide | #14 | 1 | 2.4 | ||
| Don't Look Twice | #15 | 1 | 2.1 | ||
| Everything to Lose | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
2006 in books →Andrew Gross's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2006 to May 2007. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Patterson331
- 2Mitch Albom281
- 3Janet Evanovich223
- 4Danielle Steel138
- 5Mary Higgins Clark128
- 6Dean Koontz120
- 7Nora Roberts105
- 8Nicholas Sparks99
- 9Jodi Picoult94
- 10Michael Crichton83
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.