Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jeff Shaara
Charting Jun 30, 1996 → Jun 11, 2017 · 47 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.68%
- week of Sep 15, 1996
- Career Power
- 175
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 42
- September 1995 – September 1996
- Peak Five Years
- 70
- August 1993 – August 1998
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 47
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Jun 5, 2011
- Comebacks
- 4
- Jul 1998 · Aug 2001 · Dec 2006, after 5 quiet years · Jun 2011
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
12 books · 175 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gods and Generals | #9 | 12 | 42.3 | ||
| The Last Full Measure | #8 | 7 | 27.9 | ||
| Rise to Rebellion | #9 | 6 | 19.8 | ||
| A Blaze of Glory | #7 | 4 | 17.0 | ||
| The Final Storm | #6 | 4 | 15.9 | ||
| The Rising Tide | #8 | 3 | 11.1 | ||
| A Chain of Thunder | #7 | 2 | 10.0 | ||
| The Smoke at Dawn | #8 | 2 | 8.7 | ||
| The Fateful Lightning | #11 | 3 | 7.8 | ||
| The Steel Wave | #11 | 2 | 5.7 | ||
| The Frozen Hours | #8 | 1 | 5.5 | ||
| No Less Than Victory | #11 | 1 | 3.6 |
At their peak
1995 in books →Jeff Shaara's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1995 to September 1996. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Redfield465
- 2Nicholas Evans327
- 3Danielle Steel286
- 4Mary Higgins Clark276
- 5Michael Crichton230
- 6John Grisham229
- 7Anonymous220
- 8Terry McMillan174
- 9Richard Paul Evans165
- 10Patricia Cornwell137
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.