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Kathy Reichs

Charting Sep 14, 1997 → Jul 30, 2017 · 60 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 crowns
19972017
First crown Sep 2008

Peak Power: 3.04%; week of Oct 7, 2007
Career Power: 305; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 39; September 2007 – September 2008
Peak Five Years: 136; October 2006 – October 2011
Top-five weeks: 12; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 60; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Sep 14, 2008
Comebacks: 4; Aug 2001 · Jul 2003 · Aug 2006 · Oct 2014

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

18 books · 305 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
Bones to Ashes	#3September 2007	4	September 2007 – October 2007	33.8	33.7
Devil Bones	#1September 2008	4	September 2008 – October 2008	32.0	32.0
Flash and Bones	#1September 2011	4	September 2011 – October 2011	29.5	29.5
Deja Dead	#8September 1997	7	September 1997 – October 1997	28.0	28.0
206 Bones	#4September 2009	4	September 2009 – October 2009	21.4	21.4
Break No Bones	#5July 2006	4	July 2006 – August 2006	19.9	19.9
Spider Bones	#3September 2010	3	September 2010 – September 2010	19.3	19.3
Bare Bones	#8July 2003	4	July 2003 – August 2003	17.6	17.6
Fatal Voyage	#10September 2001	5	August 2001 – September 2001	16.9	16.9
Monday Mourning	#10July 2004	4	July 2004 – July 2004	13.6	13.3
Bones Never Lie	#4October 2014	2	October 2014 – October 2014	13.2	13.2
Bones Are Forever	#4September 2012	2	September 2012 – September 2012	12.7	12.7
Cross Bones	#9July 2005	3	July 2005 – July 2005	10.5	10.5
Deadly Decisions	#12August 2000	4	August 2000 – September 2000	10.4	10.4
Speaking in Bones	#7August 2015	2	August 2015 – August 2015	9.5	9.5
Grave Secrets	#11August 2002	2	July 2002 – August 2002	6.4	6.4
Bones of the Lost	#7September 2013	1	September 2013	6.3	6.3
Two Nights	#10July 2017	1	July 2017	4.2	4.2

At their peak

2007 in books →

Kathy Reichs's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2007 to September 2008. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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