Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Dirk Cussler
Charting Dec 19, 2004 → Nov 26, 2023 · 45 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.87%
- week of Jan 23, 2005
- Career Power
- 144
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 26
- February 2004 – February 2005
- Peak Five Years
- 69
- January 2004 – January 2009
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 45
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Nov 25, 2012
- Comebacks
- 5
- Dec 2006 · Dec 2008 · Dec 2010 · Dec 2012 · Apr 2019, after 6 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
10 books · 144 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Windwith Clive Cussler | #4 | 8 | 26.3 | ||
| Treasure of Khanwith Clive Cussler | #5 | 7 | 22.5 | ||
| Celtic Empirewith Clive Cussler | #3 | 7 | 22.3 | ||
| Arctic Driftwith Clive Cussler | #3 | 6 | 19.8 | ||
| Crescent Dawnwith Clive Cussler | #4 | 6 | 14.8 | ||
| Poseidon's Arrowwith Clive Cussler | #2 | 3 | 11.3 | ||
| Havana Stormwith Clive Cussler | #4 | 3 | 9.8 | ||
| Odessa Seawith Clive Cussler | #5 | 3 | 8.2 | ||
| Clive Cussler's the Devil's Sea | #9 | 1 | 4.8 | ||
| Clive Cussler: the Corsican Shadow | #11 | 1 | 3.8 |
At their peak
2004 in books →Dirk Cussler's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2004 to February 2005. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Dan Brown867
- 2Mitch Albom534
- 3James Patterson200
- 4John Grisham167
- 5Stephen King143
- 6Danielle Steel126
- 7Carl Hiaasen95
- 8Janet Evanovich93
- 9Dustin Thomason90
- 10Ian Caldwell90
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.