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Harlan Coben portraitHarlan Coben

Charting Jul 22, 2001Jan 25, 2026 · 138 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.83%
week of May 8, 2016
Career Power
975
share-weeks
Weeks at #1
16
weeks as the top author
Peak Year
115
November 2015 – November 2016
Peak Five Years
311
November 2011 – November 2016
Top-five weeks
59
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
138
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of May 4, 2008
Comebacks
2
April 2019, November 2025
Comebacks (thresholds from config/scoring.json)
KindTrough beganReturnedTrough weeksLongest absencePrior peakReturn share
After declineJan 7, 2018Apr 14, 201966654.83%2.44%
After declineJul 14, 2024Nov 30, 202572394.83%1.73%

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

26 books · 975 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
The Boy from the Woods#2762.2
Fool Me Once#1660.5
Missing You#1756.4
Home#1754.2
Run Away#2753.4
The Stranger#2652.2
Caught#1549.8
The Woods#2648.9
Six Years#1648.6
Win#1644.2
I Will Find You#1542.9
Long Lost#1542.7
Hold Tight#1542.2
Stay Close#1538.8
Promise Me#2536.9
Gone Before Goodbyewith Reese Witherspoon#21334.8
Don't Let Go#2533.7
Live Wire#1433.1
The Match#2325.2
Just One Look#7521.5
No Second Chance#5521.4
The Innocent#6420.6
Think Twice#3319.4
Nobody's Fool#3216.0
Gone for Good#12410.5
Tell No One#1324.8