Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mitch Albom
Charting Oct 12, 2003 → Feb 1, 2026 · 230 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
21 crowns
20032026Longest reign 5 weeks (Dec 2006 – Jan 2007) · First crown Oct 2003
- Peak Power
- 11.45%
- week of Feb 18, 2007
- Career Power
- 1,872
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 21
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 588
- October 2003 – October 2004
- Peak Five Years
- 1,248
- January 2003 – January 2008
- Top-five weeks
- 125
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 230
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.60%
- week of Oct 28, 2018
- Comebacks
- 5
- Oct 2006 · Oct 2012, after 5 quiet years · Nov 2018, after 5 quiet years · Dec 2021 · Jan 2024
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
10 books · 1,872 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 Five People You Meet in Heaven | #1 | 100 | 900.1 | ||
| For One More Day | #1 | 35 | 341.0 | ||
| The Stranger in the Lifeboat | #1 | 18 | 135.6 | ||
| The First Phone Call from Heaven | #1 | 15 | 130.3 | ||
| The Next Person You Meet in Heaven | #1 | 12 | 94.5 | ||
| The Time Keeper | #1 | 15 | 86.4 | ||
| The Little Liar | #4 | 12 | 70.7 | ||
| Twice | #4 | 13 | 57.9 | ||
| The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto | #4 | 9 | 48.1 | ||
| One More Day | #6 | 1 | 7.3 |
At their peak
2003 in books →Mitch Albom's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2003 to October 2004. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Dan Brown896
- 2Mitch Albom588
- 3John Grisham275
- 4James Patterson217
- 5Stephen King149
- 6Danielle Steel128
- 7Patricia Cornwell116
- 8Carl Hiaasen92
- 9Dustin Thomason85
- 10Ian Caldwell85
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.