Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Craig Johnson
Charting Jun 23, 2013 → Jun 14, 2026 · 19 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.14%
- week of Sep 30, 2018
- Career Power
- 93
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 18
- October 2019 – October 2020
- Peak Five Years
- 52
- October 2014 – October 2019
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 19
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Oct 6, 2019
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 2018
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
16 books · 93 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depth of Winter | #5 | 2 | 11.3 | ||
| Dry Bones | #5 | 2 | 11.1 | ||
| Land of Wolves | #4 | 1 | 9.6 | ||
| Any Other Name | #6 | 2 | 9.1 | ||
| Next to Last Stand | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| An Obvious Fact | #6 | 1 | 7.3 | ||
| The Western Star | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| Hell and Back | #8 | 1 | 5.5 | ||
| The Highwayman | #10 | 1 | 4.2 | ||
| Daughter of the Morning Star | #10 | 1 | 4.2 | ||
| The Longmire Defense | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| Return to Sender | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| First Frost | #13 | 1 | 2.8 | ||
| The Brothers McKay | #14 | 1 | 2.5 | ||
| Wait for Signs | #14 | 1 | 2.4 | ||
| A Serpent's Tooth | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
2019 in books →Craig Johnson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2019 to October 2020. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Delia Owens652
- 2John Grisham318
- 3Stephen King255
- 4Jeanine Cummins251
- 5James Patterson190
- 6Brit Bennett189
- 7Alex Michaelides160
- 8Ann Patchett156
- 9David Baldacci132
- 10Jojo Moyes113
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.