Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard Russo
Charting Jul 1, 2001 → Aug 13, 2023 · 21 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.31%
- week of Sep 13, 2009
- Career Power
- 113
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 44
- October 2008 – October 2009
- Peak Five Years
- 72
- October 2004 – October 2009
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 21
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Aug 23, 2009
- Comebacks
- 3
- Aug 2009 · May 2016, after 6 quiet years · Sep 2019
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 · 113 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| That Old Cape Magic | #2 | 7 | 43.8 | ||
| Bridge of Sighs | #6 | 5 | 28.2 | ||
| Everybody's Fool | #7 | 4 | 21.5 | ||
| Chances Are ... | #8 | 3 | 14.5 | ||
| Somebody's Fool | #13 | 1 | 2.8 | ||
| Empire Falls | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
2008 in books →Richard Russo's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2008 to October 2009. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephenie Meyer272
- 2James Patterson239
- 3David Wroblewski193
- 4John Grisham145
- 5Kathryn Stockett144
- 6Nicholas Sparks137
- 7Janet Evanovich127
- 8David Baldacci124
- 9Charlaine Harris111
- 10Patricia Cornwell101
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.