Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ernest Cline
Charting Aug 2, 2015 → Feb 28, 2021 · 15 weeks with chart power
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Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 crowns
20152021Longest reign 3 weeks (Dec 2020) · First crown Dec 2020
- Peak Power
- 6.38%
- week of Jan 17, 2021
- Career Power
- 122
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 3
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 100
- March 2020 – February 2021
- Peak Five Years
- 100
- February 2016 – February 2021
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 15
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Dec 13, 2020
- Comebacks
- 1
- Dec 2020, after 5 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 books · 122 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ready Player Two | #1 | 12 | 100.5 | ||
| Armada | #4 | 3 | 21.6 |
At their peak
2020 in books →Ernest Cline's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2020 to February 2021. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Delia Owens514
- 2Brit Bennett352
- 3John Grisham324
- 4Jeanine Cummins197
- 5Nicholas Sparks181
- 6James Patterson179
- 7Stephen King127
- 8Lucy Foley126
- 9Elin Hilderbrand121
- 10Danielle Steel119
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.