Skip to content

Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Khaled Hosseini portraitKhaled Hosseini

Charting Jun 10, 2007Oct 7, 2018 · 74 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Image credits

Honours

Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    18 crowns

    20072018

    Longest reign 10 weeks (Aug–Oct 2007) · First crown Jun 2007

Peak Power
12.12%
week of Oct 7, 2007
Career Power
698
share-weeks
Crowns
18
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
496
May 2007 – May 2008
Peak Five Years
496
May 2003 – May 2008
Top-five weeks
51
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
74
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.60%
week of Aug 5, 2007
Comebacks
1
Jun 2013, after 5 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

3 books · 698 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
A Thousand Splendid Suns#149496.1
And the Mountains Echoed#224192.5
Sea Prayer#419.8

At their peak

2007 in books

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

  1. 1Khaled Hosseini496
  2. 2James Patterson295
  3. 3John Grisham286
  4. 4Ken Follett181
  5. 5Janet Evanovich144
  6. 6David Baldacci137
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks114
  8. 8Dean Koontz111
  9. 9Jodi Picoult94
  10. 10Maxine Paetro83

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.