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Joe Hill portraitJoe Hill

Charting Mar 4, 2007Nov 9, 2025 · 17 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20072025

    First crown Jun 2016

Peak Power
2.03%
week of Apr 15, 2007
Career Power
81
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
27
April 2006 – April 2007
Peak Five Years
38
November 2012 – November 2017
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jun 5, 2016
Comebacks
2
May 2013, after 6 quiet years · Jun 2016

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

7 books · 81 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Heart-Shaped Box#6727.0
The Fireman#1220.0
Nos4A2#5313.1
Horns#1026.3
King Sorrow#914.9
Strange Weather#914.8
Full Throttle#914.8

At their peak

2006 in books

Joe Hill's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2006 to April 2007. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson339
  2. 2Mitch Albom278
  3. 3Janet Evanovich223
  4. 4Danielle Steel152
  5. 5Dean Koontz120
  6. 6Mary Higgins Clark117
  7. 7Nora Roberts105
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks99
  9. 9Michael Crichton83
  10. 10Jodi Picoult76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.