Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Anonymous
Charting Apr 3, 1933 → May 21, 2006 · 30 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
9 crowns
19332006Longest reign 9 weeks (Feb–Apr 1996) · First crown Feb 1996
- Peak Power
- 10.18%
- week of May 5, 1996
- Career Power
- 263
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 9
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 220
- September 1995 – September 1996
- Peak Five Years
- 220
- September 1991 – September 1996
- Top-five weeks
- 17
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 30
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Feb 18, 1996
- Comebacks
- 1
- Feb 1996, after 62 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 books · 263 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Colors | #1 | 25 | 220.4 | ||
| Oakdale Confidential | #3 | 4 | 31.5 | ||
| Gabriel Over the White House | #3 | 1 | 11.0 |
At their peak
1995 in books →Anonymous's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1995 to September 1996. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Redfield458
- 2Nicholas Evans327
- 3Danielle Steel298
- 4Mary Higgins Clark276
- 5Michael Crichton230
- 6Anonymous220
- 7John Grisham218
- 8Richard Paul Evans165
- 9Terry McMillan164
- 10Patricia Cornwell145
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.