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Carl Hiaasen portraitCarl Hiaasen

Charting Sep 12, 1993Jun 1, 2025 · 84 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.97%
week of Sep 12, 2004
Career Power
512
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
95
October 2003 – October 2004
Peak Five Years
211
October 1999 – October 2004
Top-five weeks
28
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
84
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.90%
week of Aug 22, 2004
Comebacks
9
Sep 1995 · Nov 1997 · Jan 2000 · Jan 2002 · Aug 2004 · Dec 2006 · Aug 2010 · Jul 2013 · Oct 2016

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

12 books · 512 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
Skinny Dip#21194.8
Basket Case#31059.1
Sick Puppy#61057.2
Star Island#2754.0
Bad Monkey#3953.9
Razor Girl#2645.6
Nature Girl#4737.8
Strip Tease#8733.4
Lucky You#6730.5
Squeeze Me#4320.1
Stormy Weather#9620.0
Fever Beach#815.5

At their peak

2003 in books

Carl Hiaasen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2003 to October 2004. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown900
  2. 2Mitch Albom580
  3. 3John Grisham263
  4. 4James Patterson217
  5. 5Stephen King164
  6. 6Patricia Cornwell129
  7. 7Danielle Steel128
  8. 8Carl Hiaasen95
  9. 9Dustin Thomason87
  10. 10Ian Caldwell87

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.