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Richard Castle

Charting Nov 1, 2009Oct 4, 2015 · 14 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20092015

    First crown Oct 2011

Peak Power
1.87%
week of Oct 16, 2011
Career Power
70
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
27
October 2011 – September 2012
Peak Five Years
67
October 2009 – October 2014
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
14
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Oct 9, 2011
Comebacks
1
Oct 2011

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

7 books · 70 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
Heat Rises#1321.9
Heat Wave#6519.0
Deadly Heat#827.3
Raging Heat#617.3
Naked Heat#716.3
Frozen Heat#815.5
Driving Heat#1312.8

At their peak

2011 in books

Richard Castle's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2011 to September 2012. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham270
  2. 2James Patterson267
  3. 3Stephen King233
  4. 4Gillian Flynn200
  5. 5George R. R. Martin195
  6. 6David Baldacci136
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks122
  8. 8Janet Evanovich108
  9. 9P.D. James106
  10. 10John Sandford90

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.