Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jim Butcher
Charting Apr 22, 2007 → Feb 8, 2026 · 37 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
6 crowns
20072026First crown Apr 2009
- Peak Power
- 3.51%
- week of Sep 11, 2011
- Career Power
- 289
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 6
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 53
- September 2010 – September 2011
- Peak Five Years
- 170
- September 2006 – September 2011
- Top-five weeks
- 20
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 37
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Apr 26, 2009
- Comebacks
- 4
- Dec 2012 · Jun 2014 · Aug 2020, after 6 quiet years · Feb 2026, after 5 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
16 books · 289 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghost Story | #1 | 5 | 42.2 | ||
| Skin Game | #1 | 4 | 35.4 | ||
| Changes | #1 | 4 | 32.5 | ||
| Turn Coat | #1 | 3 | 29.7 | ||
| Small Favor | #2 | 3 | 25.8 | ||
| White Night | #5 | 4 | 20.1 | ||
| Cold Days | #1 | 2 | 17.7 | ||
| Peace Talks | #2 | 2 | 17.4 | ||
| Twelve Months | #1 | 1 | 14.5 | ||
| Battle Ground | #2 | 1 | 12.7 | ||
| Side Jobs | #5 | 2 | 11.1 | ||
| The Aeronaut's Windlass | #5 | 2 | 10.2 | ||
| Brief Cases | #5 | 1 | 8.4 | ||
| First Lord’S Fury | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| Princeps’ Fury | #13 | 1 | 2.8 | ||
| The Olympian Affair | #15 | 1 | 2.2 |
At their peak
2010 in books →Jim Butcher's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2010 to September 2011. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stieg Larsson389
- 2James Patterson255
- 3David Baldacci187
- 4Kathryn Stockett175
- 5John Grisham168
- 6Jonathan Franzen142
- 7Jean M. Auel103
- 8Michael Connelly99
- 9Ken Follett96
- 10George R. R. Martin94
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.