Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Lee Burke
Charting Aug 21, 1994 → Jun 30, 2024 · 75 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.96%
- week of Sep 2, 2007
- Career Power
- 336
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 46
- August 2007 – July 2008
- Peak Five Years
- 114
- September 2005 – August 2010
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 75
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Oct 16, 2011
- Comebacks
- 5
- Aug 2000 · Nov 2003 · Aug 2006 · Jan 2018 · Aug 2020
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
24 books · 336 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Tin Roof Blowdown | #4 | 6 | 37.9 | ||
| Purple Cane Road | #6 | 6 | 33.5 | ||
| Pegasus Descending | #4 | 5 | 24.3 | ||
| The New Iberia Blues | #4 | 4 | 22.9 | ||
| The Glass Rainbow | #6 | 5 | 22.0 | ||
| Swan Peak | #5 | 3 | 16.3 | ||
| Creole Belle | #5 | 3 | 16.3 | ||
| Feast Day of Fools | #3 | 2 | 15.2 | ||
| Light of the World | #5 | 3 | 14.6 | ||
| Cadillac Jukebox | #13 | 6 | 14.2 | ||
| Rain Gods | #6 | 3 | 13.5 | ||
| Robicheaux | #6 | 3 | 13.5 | ||
| Last Car to Elysian Fields | #11 | 4 | 12.0 | ||
| Dixie City Jam | #11 | 4 | 11.2 | ||
| A Private Cathedral | #3 | 1 | 11.0 | ||
| Jolie Blon's Bounce | #10 | 3 | 10.5 | ||
| Bitterroot | #7 | 2 | 10.0 | ||
| Wayfaring Stranger | #9 | 2 | 7.2 | ||
| Cimarron Rose | #13 | 3 | 7.0 | ||
| Crusader's Cross | #10 | 2 | 7.0 | ||
| Sunset Limited | #9 | 2 | 6.6 | ||
| The Jealous Kind | #8 | 1 | 5.5 | ||
| Clete | #15 | 1 | 2.1 | ||
| Burning Angel | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
2007 in books →James Lee Burke's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2007 to July 2008. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Khaled Hosseini387
- 2James Patterson305
- 3John Grisham291
- 4Ken Follett181
- 5Janet Evanovich150
- 6David Baldacci126
- 7Nicholas Sparks114
- 8Stephenie Meyer111
- 9Dean Koontz85
- 10Patricia Cornwell77
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.