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Lee Child

Charting May 30, 2004 → Dec 28, 2025 · 165 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
17 crowns
20042025
Longest reign 2 weeks (Jun 2008) · First crown Jun 2007

Peak Power: 5.91%; week of Jan 14, 2018
Career Power: 1,047; share-weeks
Crowns: 17; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 138; February 2017 – February 2018
Peak Five Years: 425; February 2014 – February 2019
Top-five weeks: 57; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 165; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Jun 22, 2008
Comebacks: 0; none detected

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

24 books · 1,047 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
The Midnight Line	#1November 2017	12	November 2017 – February 2018	89.9	89.9
Personal	#1September 2014	10	September 2014 – November 2014	84.0	84.0
Blue Moon	#1November 2019	11	November 2019 – February 2020	77.9	77.9
Past Tense	#1November 2018	11	November 2018 – February 2019	70.9	70.8
Night School	#1November 2016	11	November 2016 – February 2017	68.2	68.1
Make Me	#1September 2015	7	September 2015 – November 2015	64.2	64.2
The Affair	#1October 2011	7	October 2011 – November 2011	56.3	56.3
Never Go Back	#1September 2013	7	September 2013 – November 2013	54.8	54.8
A Wanted Man	#1September 2012	6	September 2012 – November 2012	53.5	53.5
No Middle Name	#2June 2017	6	June 2017 – July 2017	48.3	48.3
61 Hours	#1June 2010	6	June 2010 – July 2010	44.8	44.8
Gone Tomorrow	#1June 2009	5	June 2009 – July 2009	43.4	43.4
Nothing to Lose	#1June 2008	5	June 2008 – July 2008	40.3	40.2
Worth Dying For	#1November 2010	5	November 2010 – December 2010	38.7	38.7
The Sentinelwith Andrew Child	#1November 2020	10	November 2020 – January 2021	33.5	67.1
The Hard Way	#3June 2006	5	June 2006 – July 2006	32.0	32.0
Bad Luck and Trouble	#2June 2007	4	June 2007 – June 2007	28.2	28.2
In Too Deepwith Andrew Child	#1November 2024	8	November 2024 – December 2024	27.2	53.7
No Plan Bwith Andrew Child	#2November 2022	9	November 2022 – January 2023	26.9	53.7
The Secretwith Andrew Child	#2November 2023	7	November 2023 – January 2024	20.4	40.0
Better Off Deadwith Andrew Child	#2November 2021	4	November 2021 – December 2021	17.9	35.8
Exit Strategywith Andrew Child	#3November 2025	5	November 2025 – December 2025	13.6	27.0
One Shot	#10July 2005	2	July 2005 – July 2005	8.3	8.3
The Enemy	#16May 2004	2	May 2004 – June 2004	3.7	3.6

At their peak

2017 in books →

Lee Child's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2017 to February 2018. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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