Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Joan Hess
Charting Aug 13, 2017 → Aug 13, 2017 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.34%
- week of Aug 13, 2017
- Career Power
- 3
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 3
- August 2016 – August 2017
- Peak Five Years
- 3
- August 2012 – August 2017
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Aug 13, 2017
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
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
1 book · 3 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 Painted Queenwith Elizabeth Peters | #7 | 1 | 3.2 |
At their peak
2016 in books →Joan Hess's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2016 to August 2017. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Grisham333
- 2Colson Whitehead269
- 3James Patterson268
- 4Nicholas Sparks215
- 5Danielle Steel194
- 6David Baldacci157
- 7Paula Hawkins143
- 8Amor Towles142
- 9Jodi Picoult138
- 10Neil Gaiman127
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2010s.