Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Luceno
Charting Jun 17, 2001 → Jan 8, 2017 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.24%
- week of Feb 5, 2012
- Career Power
- 49
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- December 2004 – December 2005
- Peak Five Years
- 28
- December 2000 – December 2005
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.65%
- week of Jan 29, 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
7 books · 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darth Plagueis | #4 | 2 | 12.4 | ||
| Labyrinth of Evil | #9 | 2 | 8.0 | ||
| Dark Lord: the Rise of Darth Vader | #11 | 2 | 7.3 | ||
| The New Jedi Order: the Unifying Force | #10 | 2 | 7.0 | ||
| Catalyst | #10 | 2 | 6.3 | ||
| Cloak of Deception | #12 | 2 | 5.9 | ||
| Millennium Falcon | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
2004 in books →James Luceno's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 2004 to December 2005. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Dan Brown517
- 2James Patterson251
- 3Nicholas Sparks240
- 4Mitch Albom229
- 5Sue Monk Kidd194
- 6Elizabeth Kostova191
- 7John Grisham138
- 8Danielle Steel128
- 9Michael Crichton108
- 10Michael Connelly100
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.