Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard Ford
Charting Jun 10, 2012 → Nov 23, 2014 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.71%
- week of Jul 22, 2012
- Career Power
- 36
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 34
- July 2011 – July 2012
- Peak Five Years
- 36
- December 2009 – November 2014
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Jul 8, 2012
- 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
2 books · 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | #5 | 7 | 34.0 | ||
| Let Me Be Frank with You | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
2011 in books →Richard Ford's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 2011 to July 2012. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Patterson279
- 2John Grisham264
- 3George R. R. Martin259
- 4Stephen King233
- 5David Baldacci149
- 6Janet Evanovich128
- 7Nicholas Sparks122
- 8P.D. James106
- 9Stieg Larsson93
- 10John Sandford90
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2010s.