Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Patrick O'Brian
Charting Apr 30, 1995 → Dec 19, 1999 · 15 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.14%
- week of Nov 15, 1998
- Career Power
- 54
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 25
- November 1997 – November 1998
- Peak Five Years
- 54
- January 1995 – December 1999
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 15
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Oct 25, 1998
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
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
4 books · 54 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 Hundred Days | #5 | 5 | 24.7 | ||
| Blue at the Mizzen | #11 | 6 | 18.5 | ||
| The Yellow Admiral | #11 | 3 | 8.2 | ||
| The Commodore | #13 | 1 | 2.8 |
At their peak
1997 in books →Patrick O'Brian's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1997 to November 1998. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Charles Frazier357
- 2Danielle Steel304
- 3Arthur Golden240
- 4John Grisham224
- 5Wally Lamb202
- 6Nicholas Sparks184
- 7Anne Rice179
- 8Toni Morrison175
- 9Judy Blume172
- 10Tom Clancy160
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1990s.