Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Howard Roughan
Charting Mar 6, 2005 → Nov 2, 2025 · 52 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.58%
- week of Apr 17, 2005
- Career Power
- 217
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 74
- September 2007 – August 2008
- Peak Five Years
- 126
- August 2003 – August 2008
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 52
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.33%
- week of Sep 30, 2007
- Comebacks
- 4
- Oct 2007 · Jul 2013, after 5 quiet years · Jul 2015 · Jul 2017
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
9 books · 217 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honeymoonwith James Patterson | #1 | 9 | 51.7 | ||
| Sailwith James Patterson | #1 | 9 | 39.8 | ||
| You’Ve Been Warnedwith James Patterson | #1 | 8 | 34.1 | ||
| Murder Gameswith James Patterson | #2 | 6 | 26.8 | ||
| Second Honeymoonwith James Patterson | #2 | 6 | 19.9 | ||
| Truth or Diewith James Patterson | #3 | 5 | 16.7 | ||
| Don't Blinkwith James Patterson | #2 | 5 | 15.1 | ||
| Killer Instinctwith James Patterson | #4 | 3 | 10.7 | ||
| The Picasso Heistwith James Patterson | #9 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
2007 in books →Howard Roughan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2007 to August 2008. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Khaled Hosseini329
- 2John Grisham291
- 3James Patterson291
- 4Ken Follett181
- 5Stephenie Meyer151
- 6Janet Evanovich138
- 7David Baldacci126
- 8Nicholas Sparks114
- 9Dean Koontz85
- 10Emily Giffin82
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.