Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Cormac McCarthy
Charting Jun 7, 1992 → Dec 25, 2022 · 57 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.91%
- week of Jul 31, 1994
- Career Power
- 272
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 82
- September 1993 – September 1994
- Peak Five Years
- 148
- September 1989 – September 1994
- Top-five weeks
- 10
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 57
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jun 21, 1998
- Comebacks
- 4
- Jun 1998 · Aug 2005, after 7 quiet years · Oct 2006 · Dec 2022, after 16 quiet years
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
7 books · 272 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Crossing | #3 | 12 | 82.4 | ||
| All the Pretty Horses | #9 | 22 | 65.9 | ||
| Cities of the Plain | #2 | 7 | 42.8 | ||
| The Road | #4 | 6 | 29.6 | ||
| No Country for Old Men | #8 | 5 | 25.4 | ||
| The Passenger | #3 | 4 | 20.2 | ||
| Stella Maris | #8 | 1 | 5.5 |
At their peak
1993 in books →Cormac McCarthy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1993 to September 1994. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert James Waller789
- 2James Redfield352
- 3John Grisham314
- 4Danielle Steel299
- 5Tom Clancy253
- 6Laura Esquivel246
- 7Michael Crichton207
- 8Stephen King178
- 9Anne Rice149
- 10Caleb Carr136
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.