Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Neal Stephenson
Charting May 23, 1999 → Jul 7, 2019 · 23 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
19992019First crown Sep 2008
- Peak Power
- 2.53%
- week of Jun 28, 2015
- Career Power
- 119
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 1
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 29
- July 2014 – June 2015
- Peak Five Years
- 51
- October 2003 – October 2008
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 23
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Sep 28, 2008
- Comebacks
- 4
- Sep 2008, after 5 quiet years · Oct 2011 · Jun 2015 · Jun 2019
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 · 119 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seveneves | #3 | 4 | 28.8 | ||
| Anathem | #1 | 4 | 24.9 | ||
| Quicksilver | #6 | 4 | 19.8 | ||
| Fall | #4 | 3 | 14.4 | ||
| Reamde | #4 | 2 | 12.7 | ||
| Cryptonomicon | #12 | 3 | 7.3 | ||
| The System of the World | #9 | 1 | 4.9 | ||
| The Confusion | #10 | 1 | 4.3 | ||
| The Rise and Fall of D. O. D. O.with Nicole Galland | #11 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
2014 in books →Neal Stephenson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 2014 to June 2015. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Anthony Doerr457
- 2Paula Hawkins307
- 3John Grisham210
- 4James Patterson208
- 5David Baldacci179
- 6Stephen King168
- 7Donna Tartt133
- 8Kristin Hannah121
- 9Ken Follett114
- 10Liane Moriarty98
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.