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Brian Sitts

Charting Apr 30, 2017Mar 29, 2026 · 15 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.66%
week of Mar 22, 2026
Career Power
41
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
20
April 2025 – March 2026
Peak Five Years
37
April 2021 – March 2026
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.66%
week of Mar 1, 2026
Comebacks
1
Mar 2026

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

4 books · 39 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
Cross & Sampsonwith James Patterson#3519.8
Holmes, Marple & Poewith James Patterson#6512.7
Holmes Is Missingwith James Patterson#724.8
Two from the Heartwith James Patterson, Frank Costantini, Emily Raymond#821.9

At their peak

2025 in books

Brian Sitts's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2025 to March 2026. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros305
  2. 2Dan Brown225
  3. 3Virginia Evans215
  4. 4John Grisham205
  5. 5SenLinYu203
  6. 6Taylor Jenkins Reid177
  7. 7Callie Hart148
  8. 8Emily Henry140
  9. 9James Patterson134
  10. 10Fredrik Backman123

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.