Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Dorothea Benton Frank
Charting Jul 13, 2003 → Jul 7, 2019 · 56 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.58%
- week of Jul 7, 2019
- Career Power
- 267
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 35
- June 2016 – June 2017
- Peak Five Years
- 127
- June 2014 – June 2019
- Top-five weeks
- 10
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 56
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jun 16, 2019
- Comebacks
- 2
- May 2008 · Jul 2011
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
17 books · 267 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Bee | #2 | 4 | 29.5 | ||
| The Hurricane Sisters | #3 | 5 | 27.0 | ||
| Same Beach, Next Year | #4 | 4 | 24.4 | ||
| By Invitation Only | #4 | 3 | 23.4 | ||
| Folly Beach | #4 | 4 | 23.0 | ||
| Porch Lights | #5 | 4 | 18.9 | ||
| All Summer Long | #3 | 3 | 18.3 | ||
| The Last Original Wife | #7 | 4 | 18.2 | ||
| All the Single Ladies | #6 | 3 | 12.7 | ||
| Isle of Palms | #11 | 4 | 11.5 | ||
| Shem Creek | #10 | 3 | 11.0 | ||
| Bulls Island | #9 | 3 | 10.8 | ||
| Full of Grace | #9 | 3 | 9.6 | ||
| Return to Sullivans Island | #9 | 3 | 9.3 | ||
| Lowcountry Summer | #9 | 2 | 8.4 | ||
| The Land of Mango Sunsets | #14 | 3 | 6.6 | ||
| Pawleys Island | #9 | 1 | 4.8 |
At their peak
2016 in books →Dorothea Benton Frank's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2016 to June 2017. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Colson Whitehead269
- 2James Patterson264
- 3John Grisham222
- 4Nicholas Sparks215
- 5Danielle Steel202
- 6David Baldacci157
- 7Jodi Picoult138
- 8Ruth Ware129
- 9Neil Gaiman125
- 10Paula Hawkins113
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.