Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Pete Hamill
Charting May 25, 1997 → Feb 23, 2003 · 15 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.18%
- week of Jul 20, 1997
- Career Power
- 56
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 33
- July 1996 – July 1997
- Peak Five Years
- 33
- August 1992 – July 1997
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 15
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of May 25, 1997
- Comebacks
- 1
- Feb 2003, after 5 quiet years
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
2 books · 56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snow in August | #8 | 9 | 33.0 | ||
| Forever | #8 | 6 | 23.1 |
At their peak
1996 in books →Pete Hamill's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1996 to July 1997. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Grisham391
- 2Nicholas Sparks260
- 3Tom Clancy246
- 4Jacquelyn Mitchard237
- 5James Redfield231
- 6Danielle Steel230
- 7Patricia Cornwell228
- 8Mary Higgins Clark219
- 9Michael Crichton159
- 10Stephen King139
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.