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Charting Jun 24, 2012 → May 4, 2014 · 80 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    14 crowns

    20122014

    Longest reign 6 weeks (Aug–Sep 2012) · First crown Jul 2012

Peak Power
11.66%
week of Mar 3, 2013
Career Power
687
share-weeks
Crowns
14
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
550
June 2012 – June 2013
Peak Five Years
687
May 2009 – May 2014
Top-five weeks
43
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
80
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jul 15, 2012
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

1 book · 687 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
Gone Girl#180687.1

At their peak

2012 in books →

Gillian Flynn's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2012 to June 2013. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Gillian Flynn550
  2. 2James Patterson242
  3. 3John Grisham216
  4. 4David Baldacci154
  5. 5J. K. Rowling133
  6. 6George R. R. Martin130
  7. 7Janet Evanovich121
  8. 8Ken Follett87
  9. 9Mitch Albom86
  10. 10Danielle Steel86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.