Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Neil Gaiman
Charting Jul 8, 2001 → Jun 18, 2017 · 35 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 crowns
20012017First crown Oct 2005
- Peak Power
- 7.13%
- week of Apr 23, 2017
- Career Power
- 266
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 4
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 127
- June 2016 – June 2017
- Peak Five Years
- 235
- June 2012 – June 2017
- Top-five weeks
- 15
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 35
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.59%
- week of Mar 19, 2017
- Comebacks
- 3
- Jul 2013, after 7 quiet years · Mar 2015 · Mar 2017
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
6 books · 266 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norse Mythology | #1 | 14 | 127.3 | ||
| The Ocean at the End of the Lane | #1 | 10 | 78.1 | ||
| Trigger Warning | #4 | 5 | 29.3 | ||
| Anansi Boys | #1 | 3 | 22.8 | ||
| American Gods | #10 | 2 | 6.6 | ||
| Fragile Things | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
2016 in books →Neil Gaiman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2016 to June 2017. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Colson Whitehead269
- 2James Patterson263
- 3John Grisham222
- 4Nicholas Sparks215
- 5Danielle Steel202
- 6David Baldacci157
- 7Jodi Picoult138
- 8Ruth Ware129
- 9Neil Gaiman127
- 10Paula Hawkins116
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.