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Jonathan Kellerman

Charting Oct 1, 1989Feb 22, 2026 · 179 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    19892026

    First crown Apr 2006

Peak Power
4.43%
week of May 14, 2006
Career Power
1,003
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
83
January 1997 – January 1998
Peak Five Years
274
January 1993 – January 1998
Top-five weeks
49
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
179
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Apr 16, 2006
Comebacks
4
Feb 1992 · Oct 2002 · Mar 2012 · Mar 2017

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

45 books · 1,003 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
The Clinic#2857.1
Gone#1655.8
Billy Straight#3854.9
Bad Love#5953.6
The Web#5949.0
Self-Defense#4744.9
Compulsion#1541.3
Obsession#2541.0
Devil's Waltz#5739.4
Private Eyes#6836.8
Monster#8833.1
Survival of the Fittest#7832.3
Heartbreak Hotel#4431.6
A Cold Heart#6630.0
True Detectives#1429.1
The Murder Book#5426.7
Victims#2425.5
Therapy#5423.0
Guilt#4322.8
Killer#3422.0
Silent Partner#7622.0
Rage#7521.9
Dr. Death#7521.9
Deception#4419.6
Bones#4319.5
Flesh and Blood#7517.3
Mystery#3213.8
Breakdown#6313.5
The Wedding Guest#7312.2
Evidence#6210.5
Night Moves#6210.0
Motive#7210.0
The Conspiracy Club#928.6
The Museum of Desire#518.3
The Murderer's Daughter#728.1
Twisted#617.3
City of the Dead#716.3
Unnatural History#914.8
Crime Scenewith Jesse Kellerman#923.4
The Ghost Orchid#1213.3
Serpentine#1312.8
Jigsaw#1312.8
Open Season#1412.6
Double Homicidewith Faye Kellerman#1211.6
The Golem of Hollywoodwith Jesse Kellerman#1511.0

At their peak

1997 in books

Jonathan Kellerman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1997 to January 1998. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Danielle Steel351
  2. 2Charles Frazier326
  3. 3John Grisham316
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks298
  5. 5Patricia Cornwell254
  6. 6Nelson DeMille191
  7. 7Mary Higgins Clark141
  8. 8David Baldacci134
  9. 9Michael Crichton117
  10. 10Arundhati Roy104

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.