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Richard Paul Evans

Charting Nov 5, 1995Nov 23, 2025 · 126 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    5 crowns

    19952025

    Longest reign 5 weeks (Dec 1995 – Jan 1996) · First crown Dec 1995

Peak Power
8.98%
week of Jan 14, 1996
Career Power
678
share-weeks
Crowns
5
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
165
June 1995 – June 1996
Peak Five Years
399
November 1995 – October 2000
Top-five weeks
30
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
126
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Dec 17, 1995
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

35 books · 678 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
The Christmas Box#129218.7
The Letter#41587.9
The Locket#111231.5
The Looking Glass#9929.5
Timepiece#6629.2
The Carousel#9825.4
Walking on Water#3420.3
The Mistletoe Promise#4417.2
The Road to Grace#4416.9
The Walk#4316.2
Lost December#5314.4
A Step of Faith#5213.1
A Winter Dream#6312.7
The Noel Diary#629.4
Finding Noel#1038.7
Miles to Go#518.3
A Christmas Memory#518.3
The Christmas Stranger#518.3
The Last Promise#1027.8
The Broken Road#617.4
The Mistletoe Secret#827.3
A Perfect Day#617.3
The Forgotten Road#617.3
Promise Me#927.2
The Mistletoe Inn#927.2
The Noel Stranger#926.9
The Road Home#716.3
The Noel Letters#716.3
The Christmas Promise#716.3
Christmas in Bethel#716.3
Grace#815.5
The Gift#1113.6
Noel Street#1113.6
The Christmas List#1213.2
The Sunflower#1512.1

At their peak

1995 in books

Richard Paul Evans's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1995 to June 1996. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Redfield395
  2. 2Danielle Steel342
  3. 3Nicholas Evans327
  4. 4Mary Higgins Clark292
  5. 5Michael Crichton230
  6. 6Anonymous201
  7. 7John Grisham179
  8. 8Pat Conroy179
  9. 9Richard Paul Evans165
  10. 10James Finn Garner161

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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