Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Jeffery Deaver

Charting Sep 5, 1999 → Jun 2, 2019 · 53 weeks with chart power

Peak Power: 2.15%; week of Jul 16, 2006
Career Power: 234; share-weeks
Weeks at #1: 0; weeks as the top author

Peak Year: 32; March 2002 – March 2003
Peak Five Years: 92; July 2001 – July 2006
Top-five weeks: 7; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 53; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 9.58%; week of Jun 23, 2013
Comebacks: 6; April 2002, July 2005, July 2008, July 2011, June 2013, April 2016

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After decline	Oct 1, 2000	Apr 7, 2002	79	44	1.90%	1.41%
After decline	Jul 27, 2003	Jul 3, 2005	100	54	2.07%	1.01%
After decline	Oct 8, 2006	Jul 6, 2008	90	52	2.15%	1.22%
After decline	Sep 28, 2008	Jul 10, 2011	145	50	2.15%	1.51%
After decline	Oct 2, 2011	Jun 23, 2013	90	50	2.15%	1.05%
After decline	Jul 20, 2014	Apr 3, 2016	87	45	2.15%	1.07%

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

23 books · 234 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 Cold Moon	#5June 2006	5	June 2006 – July 2006	25.8	25.8
The Vanished Man	#6March 2003	5	March 2003 – April 2003	25.2	25.2
The Stone Monkey	#5March 2002	5	March 2002 – April 2002	24.6	24.6
The Empty Chair	#9June 2000	6	May 2000 – July 2000	23.3	22.1
Carte Blanche	#5July 2011	3	July 2011 – July 2011	18.8	18.8
The Broken Window	#7June 2008	4	June 2008 – July 2008	17.5	17.4
The Steel KISS	#7March 2016	3	March 2016 – April 2016	12.9	12.9
The Twelfth Card	#6June 2005	3	June 2005 – July 2005	12.4	12.4
The Kill Room	#4June 2013	2	June 2013 – June 2013	12.0	12.0
The Skin Collector	#8June 2014	2	June 2014 – June 2014	9.7	9.7
The Burning Wire	#7June 2010	2	June 2010 – June 2010	9.5	9.5
The Burial Hour	#5April 2017	1	April 2017	8.4	8.3
Roadside Crosses	#8June 2009	1	June 2009	5.5	5.5
The Bodies Left Behind	#13November 2008	2	November 2008 – December 2008	4.6	4.6
Garden of Beasts	#10August 2004	1	August 2004	4.3	4.2
The Never Game	#11June 2019	1	June 2019	3.6	3.6
Solitude Creek	#13May 2015	1	May 2015	2.8	2.8
The Blue Nowhere	#14May 2001	1	May 2001	2.4	2.4
Edge	#14November 2010	1	November 2010	2.4	2.4
The October List	#14October 2013	1	October 2013	2.4	2.4
The Devil's Teardrop	#15September 1999	1	September 1999	2.2	2.1
The Sleeping Doll	#15June 2007	1	June 2007	2.1	2.1
Xo	#15July 2012	1	July 2012	2.1	2.1