Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Rollins
Charting Jul 16, 2006 → Sep 3, 2023 · 41 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.00%
- week of Aug 2, 2009
- Career Power
- 232
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top author
- 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
- July 2011, February 2019
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Nov 1, 2009 | Jul 10, 2011 | 88 | 75 | 3.00% | 1.20% |
| After absence | Nov 16, 2014 | Feb 10, 2019 | 219 | 109 | 3.00% | 1.38% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Doomsday Key | #2 | 5 | 36.4 | ||
| The Judas Strain | #4 | 5 | 26.4 | ||
| The Devil Colony | #3 | 4 | 23.5 | ||
| Bloodline | #3 | 3 | 21.4 | ||
| Crucible | #2 | 2 | 21.0 | ||
| The 6th Extinction | #3 | 3 | 20.1 | ||
| Black Order | #7 | 4 | 19.2 | ||
| The Eye of God | #6 | 3 | 14.8 | ||
| The Last Oracle | #7 | 3 | 11.3 | ||
| Kingdom of Bones | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| Altar of Eden | #9 | 2 | 7.5 | ||
| The Last Odyssey | #6 | 1 | 7.3 | ||
| Blood Infernal | #11 | 1 | 3.6 | ||
| The Seventh Plague | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| The Blood Gospelwith Rebecca Cantrell | #8 | 1 | 2.8 | ||
| Tides of Fire | #13 | 1 | 2.8 | ||
| The Kill Switchwith Grant Blackwood | #10 | 1 | 2.1 |