Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Chuck Wendig
Charting Sep 27, 2015 → Mar 19, 2017 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.49%
- week of Mar 19, 2017
- Career Power
- 30
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 20
- March 2016 – March 2017
- Peak Five Years
- 30
- March 2012 – March 2017
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.08%
- week of Mar 12, 2017
- Comebacks
- 1
- Mar 2017
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 · 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aftermath: Empire's End | #3 | 2 | 14.7 | ||
| Star Wars: Aftermath | #5 | 2 | 10.2 | ||
| Life Debt: Aftermath | #9 | 1 | 4.8 |
At their peak
2016 in books →Chuck Wendig's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2016 to March 2017. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Colson Whitehead248
- 2James Patterson246
- 3Nicholas Sparks215
- 4John Grisham211
- 5Danielle Steel179
- 6Anthony Doerr173
- 7David Baldacci163
- 8Paula Hawkins152
- 9Kristin Hannah135
- 10Jodi Picoult133
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2010s.