Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Michael Palmer
Charting Apr 17, 1994 → Mar 13, 2011 · 18 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.40%
- week of Apr 23, 1995
- Career Power
- 56
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- May 1994 – April 1995
- Peak Five Years
- 31
- May 1993 – April 1998
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 18
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.16%
- week of May 7, 2000
- Comebacks
- 1
- Apr 1998
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
9 books · 56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silent Treatment | #9 | 4 | 15.3 | ||
| Miracle Cure | #9 | 5 | 13.9 | ||
| The Patient | #9 | 2 | 7.8 | ||
| A Heartbeat Away | #10 | 2 | 6.3 | ||
| The First Patient | #10 | 1 | 4.2 | ||
| Natural Causes | #15 | 1 | 2.2 | ||
| The Society | #15 | 1 | 2.1 | ||
| The Last Surgeon | #15 | 1 | 2.1 | ||
| Fatal | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1994 in books →Michael Palmer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1994 to April 1995. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Redfield679
- 2James Finn Garner446
- 3Robert James Waller441
- 4Danielle Steel281
- 5Tom Clancy254
- 6John Grisham240
- 7Mary Higgins Clark214
- 8Stephen King161
- 9Caleb Carr134
- 10Anne Rice126
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.