Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Kent Haruf
Charting Dec 5, 1999 → Jul 5, 2015 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.07%
- week of Jul 5, 2015
- Career Power
- 24
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 12
- January 1999 – January 2000
- Peak Five Years
- 12
- January 1995 – January 2000
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Jun 14, 2015
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 2015, after 15 quiet years
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
2 books · 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plainsong | #13 | 5 | 12.2 | ||
| Our Souls at Night | #9 | 4 | 12.1 |
At their peak
1999 in books →Kent Haruf's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1999 to January 2000. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J. K. Rowling849
- 2Stephen King256
- 3John Grisham254
- 4Danielle Steel235
- 5Patricia Cornwell199
- 6Thomas Harris175
- 7Janet Fitch165
- 8Maeve Binchy152
- 9Tom Wolfe112
- 10James Patterson109
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.