Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mark Sullivan
Charting Mar 4, 2012 → Aug 14, 2016 · 28 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.24%
- week of Apr 15, 2012
- Career Power
- 120
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 46
- March 2012 – February 2013
- Peak Five Years
- 120
- August 2011 – August 2016
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 28
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.33%
- week of Mar 4, 2012
- Comebacks
- 1
- Apr 2016
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
5 books · 120 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private Gameswith James Patterson | #1 | 7 | 30.2 | ||
| Private L. A.with James Patterson | #1 | 5 | 25.0 | ||
| Private Berlinwith James Patterson | #1 | 6 | 23.6 | ||
| Private Pariswith James Patterson | #1 | 5 | 21.5 | ||
| The Gameswith James Patterson | #2 | 5 | 20.3 |
At their peak
2012 in books →Mark Sullivan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2012 to February 2013. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Gillian Flynn421
- 2John Grisham292
- 3James Patterson232
- 4David Baldacci159
- 5George R. R. Martin143
- 6J. K. Rowling133
- 7Janet Evanovich121
- 8Vince Flynn119
- 9Danielle Steel109
- 10Ken Follett87
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2010s.