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Bill Clinton portraitBill Clinton

Charting Jun 24, 2018Jul 20, 2025 · 36 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The President Is Missingwith James Patterson#118102.0
The President's Daughterwith James Patterson#11349.5
The First Gentlemanwith James Patterson#2520.8

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:

  1. 1James Patterson297
  2. 2Stephen King235
  3. 3A.J. Finn201
  4. 4Celeste Ng200
  5. 5Lisa Wingate194
  6. 6John Grisham182
  7. 7David Baldacci162
  8. 8Danielle Steel152
  9. 9Kristin Hannah145
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks102

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.