Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bill Clinton
Charting Jun 24, 2018 → Jul 20, 2025 · 36 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.19%
- week of Sep 23, 2018
- Career Power
- 172
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 102
- January 2018 – January 2019
- Peak Five Years
- 151
- September 2016 – September 2021
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 36
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.30%
- week of Jun 24, 2018
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 2021
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
3 books · 172 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The President Is Missingwith James Patterson | #1 | 18 | 102.0 | ||
| The President's Daughterwith James Patterson | #1 | 13 | 49.5 | ||
| The First Gentlemanwith James Patterson | #2 | 5 | 20.8 |
At their peak
2018 in books →Bill Clinton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2018 to January 2019. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Patterson297
- 2Stephen King235
- 3A.J. Finn201
- 4Celeste Ng200
- 5Lisa Wingate194
- 6John Grisham182
- 7David Baldacci162
- 8Danielle Steel152
- 9Kristin Hannah145
- 10Nicholas Sparks102
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.