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Dan Brown portraitDan Brown

Charting Apr 6, 2003Feb 22, 2026 · 269 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    102 crowns

    20032026

    Longest reign 48 weeks (Nov 2003 – Oct 2004) · First crown Apr 2003

Peak Power
19.20%
week of Jul 4, 2004
Career Power
3,183
share-weeks
Crowns
102
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
901
October 2003 – October 2004
Peak Five Years
2,134
June 2001 – June 2006
Top-five weeks
222
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
269
weeks with chart power
Dominance
21.49%
week of Jun 20, 2004
Comebacks
4
Nov 2009 · Jul 2013 · Dec 2017 · Nov 2025, after 8 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

6 books · 3,183 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Da Vinci Code#11651,962.3
The Lost Symbol#129317.7
Inferno#129266.2
Origin#124240.0
The Secret of Secrets#122224.6
Angels & Demons#440171.9

At their peak

2003 in books

Dan Brown'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 Brown901
  2. 2Mitch Albom572
  3. 3John Grisham252
  4. 4James Patterson217
  5. 5Stephen King179
  6. 6Patricia Cornwell140
  7. 7Danielle Steel128
  8. 8Carl Hiaasen95
  9. 9Dustin Thomason89
  10. 10Ian Caldwell89

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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