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James Rollins portraitJames Rollins

Charting Jul 16, 2006 → Sep 3, 2023 · 41 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.00%
week of Aug 2, 2009
Career Power
232
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
44
February 2009 – January 2010
Peak Five Years
113
July 2006 – July 2011
Top-five weeks
11
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
41
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Jul 12, 2009
Comebacks
2
Jul 2011 · Feb 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

17 books · 232 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 Doomsday Key#2536.4
The Judas Strain#4526.4
The Devil Colony#3423.5
Bloodline#3321.4
Crucible#2221.0
The 6th Extinction#3320.1
Black Order#7419.2
The Eye of God#6314.8
The Last Oracle#7311.3
Kingdom of Bones#518.3
Altar of Eden#927.5
The Last Odyssey#617.3
Blood Infernal#1113.6
The Seventh Plague#1213.2
The Blood Gospelwith Rebecca Cantrell#812.8
Tides of Fire#1312.8
The Kill Switchwith Grant Blackwood#1012.1

At their peak

2009 in books →

James Rollins's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2009 to January 2010. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Kathryn Stockett290
  2. 2James Patterson249
  3. 3Dan Brown231
  4. 4John Grisham215
  5. 5Stephenie Meyer186
  6. 6Charlaine Harris144
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks116
  8. 8Janet Evanovich113
  9. 9David Baldacci108
  10. 10Pat Conroy89

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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