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David Ellis

Charting Apr 15, 2012Nov 3, 2024 · 49 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.94%
week of May 21, 2017
Career Power
212
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
54
August 2013 – August 2014
Peak Five Years
121
May 2012 – May 2017
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
49
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.31%
week of Apr 30, 2017
Comebacks
5
Sep 2013 · Apr 2017 · Jun 2019 · May 2021 · Jul 2022

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

9 books · 212 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 Black Bookwith James Patterson#1739.3
Guilty Wiveswith James Patterson#2630.0
Invisiblewith James Patterson#1729.7
Mistresswith James Patterson#2626.4
Unsolvedwith James Patterson#2624.9
The Murder Housewith James Patterson#1624.6
The Red Bookwith James Patterson#3415.7
Escapewith James Patterson#4413.0
Lies He Told Mewith James Patterson#638.5

At their peak

2013 in books

David Ellis's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2013 to August 2014. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Donna Tartt422
  2. 2Stephen King235
  3. 3James Patterson229
  4. 4John Grisham218
  5. 5Sue Monk Kidd183
  6. 6Robert Galbraith148
  7. 7Mitch Albom130
  8. 8Janet Evanovich120
  9. 9David Baldacci120
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks119

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.