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Ernest Cline portraitErnest Cline

Charting Aug 2, 2015Feb 28, 2021 · 15 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    20152021

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Ready Player Two#112100.5
Armada#4321.6

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:

  1. 1Delia Owens514
  2. 2Brit Bennett352
  3. 3John Grisham324
  4. 4Jeanine Cummins197
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks181
  6. 6James Patterson179
  7. 7Stephen King127
  8. 8Lucy Foley126
  9. 9Elin Hilderbrand121
  10. 10Danielle Steel119

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.