Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Joe Hill
Charting Mar 4, 2007 → Nov 9, 2025 · 17 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
20072025First 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heart-Shaped Box | #6 | 7 | 27.0 | ||
| The Fireman | #1 | 2 | 20.0 | ||
| Nos4A2 | #5 | 3 | 13.1 | ||
| Horns | #10 | 2 | 6.3 | ||
| King Sorrow | #9 | 1 | 4.9 | ||
| Strange Weather | #9 | 1 | 4.8 | ||
| Full Throttle | #9 | 1 | 4.8 |
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:
- 1James Patterson339
- 2Mitch Albom278
- 3Janet Evanovich223
- 4Danielle Steel152
- 5Dean Koontz120
- 6Mary Higgins Clark117
- 7Nora Roberts105
- 8Nicholas Sparks99
- 9Michael Crichton83
- 10Jodi Picoult76
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.