Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Chuck Palahniuk
Charting Jun 10, 2001 → May 20, 2018 · 36 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.47%
- week of Jun 14, 2009
- Career Power
- 183
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 35
- June 2008 – May 2009
- Peak Five Years
- 98
- June 2004 – June 2009
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 36
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of May 24, 2009
- Comebacks
- 4
- May 2005 · May 2007 · Nov 2011 · Nov 2014
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
13 books · 183 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pygmy | #3 | 4 | 28.0 | ||
| Rant | #5 | 5 | 27.7 | ||
| Haunted | #8 | 6 | 25.6 | ||
| Diary | #5 | 4 | 21.2 | ||
| Snuff | #5 | 3 | 16.7 | ||
| Lullaby | #7 | 3 | 12.6 | ||
| Damned | #6 | 2 | 12.1 | ||
| Beautiful You | #5 | 2 | 10.2 | ||
| Choke | #10 | 3 | 9.0 | ||
| Adjustment Day | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| Make Something Up | #8 | 1 | 5.5 | ||
| Tell-All | #10 | 1 | 4.2 | ||
| Doomed | #11 | 1 | 3.6 |
At their peak
2008 in books →Chuck Palahniuk's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2008 to May 2009. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephenie Meyer416
- 2David Wroblewski311
- 3James Patterson217
- 4John Grisham145
- 5Janet Evanovich135
- 6Patricia Cornwell119
- 7Nicholas Sparks110
- 8David Baldacci110
- 9Annie Barrows88
- 10Mary Ann Shaffer88
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.