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Richard Chizmar portraitRichard Chizmar

Charting Jun 4, 2017Oct 19, 2025 · 8 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.54%
week of Jun 18, 2017
Career Power
19
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
6
June 2016 – June 2017
Peak Five Years
13
November 2020 – October 2025
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.21%
week of Sep 5, 2021
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

6 books · 19 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
Gwendy's Button Boxwith Stephen King#735.7
Chasing the Boogeyman#1014.2
Memorials#1014.2
Becoming the Boogeyman#1412.4
Gwendy's Final Taskwith Stephen King#1411.2
Widow's Pointwith W.H. Chizmar#1511.1

At their peak

2016 in books

Richard Chizmar'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 2010s, the 2020s.