Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Dennis Lehane
Charting Feb 18, 2001 → May 14, 2023 · 28 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.15%
- week of Apr 15, 2001
- Career Power
- 128
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 43
- April 2000 – April 2001
- Peak Five Years
- 54
- May 1998 – May 2003
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 28
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Oct 12, 2008
- Comebacks
- 2
- Oct 2008, after 7 quiet years · Jun 2017, 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
8 books · 128 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mystic River | #6 | 9 | 43.3 | ||
| The Given Day | #3 | 4 | 22.1 | ||
| Since We Fell | #7 | 3 | 12.3 | ||
| World Gone By | #8 | 3 | 11.4 | ||
| Shutter Island | #12 | 4 | 11.1 | ||
| Live by Night | #8 | 2 | 10.3 | ||
| Moonlight Mile | #6 | 2 | 9.4 | ||
| Small Mercies | #5 | 1 | 8.3 |
At their peak
2000 in books →Dennis Lehane's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2000 to April 2001. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Danielle Steel292
- 2James Patterson267
- 3J. K. Rowling260
- 4John Grisham241
- 5Tom Clancy183
- 6Jerry B. Jenkins160
- 7Tim LaHaye160
- 8Mary Higgins Clark152
- 9Barbara Kingsolver122
- 10Sandra Brown119
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.