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Greg Iles portraitGreg Iles

Charting Jul 29, 2001 → Jun 16, 2024 · 40 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    2 crowns

    20012024

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Apr 2017) · First crown Apr 2017

Peak Power
3.51%
week of Apr 21, 2019
Career Power
237
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
50
May 2014 – May 2015
Peak Five Years
154
April 2014 – April 2019
Top-five weeks
10
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
40
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Apr 9, 2017
Comebacks
4
Jul 2009 · May 2014, after 5 quiet years · Apr 2017 · Mar 2019

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

12 books · 237 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
Cemetery Road#2542.4
Mississippi Blood#1542.1
Natchez Burning#2640.4
The Bone Tree#4529.4
Turning Angel#8524.5
The Devil’S Punchbowl#4422.6
Blood Memory#8313.4
True Evil#1337.2
Southern Man#716.5
Dead Sleep#1312.8
The Footprints of God#1312.8
Third Degree#1312.8

At their peak

2014 in books →

Greg Iles's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2014 to May 2015. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Anthony Doerr403
  2. 2James Patterson215
  3. 3Paula Hawkins215
  4. 4John Grisham210
  5. 5Donna Tartt209
  6. 6David Baldacci178
  7. 7Stephen King168
  8. 8Ken Follett114
  9. 9Liane Moriarty103
  10. 10Jan Karon96

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.