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David Baldacci portraitDavid Baldacci

Charting Feb 11, 1996 → May 17, 2026 · 488 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    42 crowns

    19962026

    Longest reign 3 weeks (May 2007) · First crown May 2007

Peak Power
8.30%
week of Sep 4, 2022
Career Power
3,496
share-weeks
Crowns
42
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
259
December 2021 – November 2022
Peak Five Years
895
December 2014 – December 2019
Top-five weeks
220
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
488
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.85%
week of Nov 14, 2004
Comebacks
1
Dec 2001

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

54 books · 3,496 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
Total Control#212112.2
The 6:20 Man#111108.9
The Fallen#112104.8
Absolute Power#217103.4
The Escape#113100.7
The Winner#21497.9
The Innocent#11288.2
The Simple Truth#21287.3
Redemption#11086.2
The Last Mile#11086.1
Dream Town#1982.2
Memory Man#11081.5
Last Man Standing#31081.2
The Fix#11080.8
The Target#1977.3
No Man's Land#21076.5
The Sixth Man#1876.1
Stone Cold#11275.8
The Hit#1974.5
The Camel Club#31272.0
The Forgotten#21071.1
One Good Deed#1868.7
The Christmas Train#3968.7
A Minute to Midnight#11167.7
First Family#1964.6
Walk the Wire#2964.4
The Guilty#21061.7
Simple Genius#1761.3
Hell's Corner#11061.1
Saving Faith#51060.8
End Game#31160.7
Simply Lies#1959.3
Divine Justice#11059.3
Long Road to Mercy#21156.1
Hour Game#1654.7
Daylight#2752.1
Split Second#2751.2
The Whole Truth#1650.0
One Summer#2849.9
Zero Day#1747.4
Deliver Us from Evil#1646.7
A Calamity of Souls#2846.3
A Gambling Man#1744.3
The Collectors#2643.7
True Blue#3943.5
To Die For#1743.5
Long Shadows#1643.2
King and Maxwell#2742.6
Strangers in Time#2640.2
The Edge#3736.3
Nash Falls#4733.2
Wish You Well#5631.8
Hope Rises#1328.7
Mercy#2628.4

At their peak

2021 in books →

David Baldacci's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 2021 to November 2022. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham317
  2. 2Matt Haig280
  3. 3David Baldacci259
  4. 4James Patterson220
  5. 5Laura Dave168
  6. 6Amor Towles164
  7. 7Lucy Foley142
  8. 8Stephen King138
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks138
  10. 10Elin Hilderbrand133

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.