Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard Paul Evans
Charting Nov 5, 1995 → Nov 23, 2025 · 126 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 8.98%
- week of Jan 14, 1996
- Career Power
- 678
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 5
- weeks as the top author
- 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 (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Christmas Box | #1 | 29 | 218.7 | ||
| The Letter | #4 | 15 | 87.9 | ||
| The Locket | #11 | 12 | 31.5 | ||
| The Looking Glass | #9 | 9 | 29.5 | ||
| Timepiece | #6 | 6 | 29.2 | ||
| The Carousel | #9 | 8 | 25.4 | ||
| Walking on Water | #3 | 4 | 20.3 | ||
| The Mistletoe Promise | #4 | 4 | 17.2 | ||
| The Road to Grace | #4 | 4 | 16.9 | ||
| The Walk | #4 | 3 | 16.2 | ||
| Lost December | #5 | 3 | 14.4 | ||
| A Step of Faith | #5 | 2 | 13.1 | ||
| A Winter Dream | #6 | 3 | 12.7 | ||
| The Noel Diary | #6 | 2 | 9.4 | ||
| Finding Noel | #10 | 3 | 8.7 | ||
| Miles to Go | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| A Christmas Memory | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| The Christmas Stranger | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| The Last Promise | #10 | 2 | 7.8 | ||
| The Broken Road | #6 | 1 | 7.4 | ||
| The Mistletoe Secret | #8 | 2 | 7.3 | ||
| A Perfect Day | #6 | 1 | 7.3 | ||
| The Forgotten Road | #6 | 1 | 7.3 | ||
| Promise Me | #9 | 2 | 7.2 | ||
| The Mistletoe Inn | #9 | 2 | 7.2 | ||
| The Noel Stranger | #9 | 2 | 6.9 | ||
| The Road Home | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| The Noel Letters | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| The Christmas Promise | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| Christmas in Bethel | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| Grace | #8 | 1 | 5.5 | ||
| The Gift | #11 | 1 | 3.6 | ||
| Noel Street | #11 | 1 | 3.6 | ||
| The Christmas List | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| The Sunflower | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |