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Neil Gaiman portraitNeil Gaiman

Charting Jul 8, 2001Jun 18, 2017 · 35 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    4 crowns

    20012017

    First 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Norse Mythology#114127.3
The Ocean at the End of the Lane#11078.1
Trigger Warning#4529.3
Anansi Boys#1322.8
American Gods#1026.6
Fragile Things#1412.4

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:

  1. 1Colson Whitehead269
  2. 2James Patterson263
  3. 3John Grisham222
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks215
  5. 5Danielle Steel202
  6. 6David Baldacci157
  7. 7Jodi Picoult138
  8. 8Ruth Ware129
  9. 9Neil Gaiman127
  10. 10Paula Hawkins116

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.