Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Duane Swierczynski
Charting Sep 3, 2023 → Sep 28, 2025 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.88%
- week of Sep 17, 2023
- Career Power
- 15
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 9
- September 2022 – September 2023
- Peak Five Years
- 15
- October 2020 – September 2025
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Sep 3, 2023
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
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
2 books · 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lion & Lambwith James Patterson | #4 | 3 | 9.3 | ||
| Billion-Dollar Ransomwith James Patterson | #6 | 2 | 5.5 |
At their peak
2022 in books →Duane Swierczynski's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2022 to September 2023. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Bonnie Garmus526
- 2Barbara Kingsolver296
- 3Gabrielle Zevin251
- 4Stephen King246
- 5Emily Henry200
- 6Rebecca Yarros197
- 7John Grisham192
- 8James Patterson164
- 9Abraham Verghese140
- 10Nicholas Sparks128
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2020s.