Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ridley Pearson
Charting Jul 23, 2000 → Aug 3, 2008 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.54%
- week of Aug 5, 2007
- Career Power
- 10
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 5
- August 2006 – August 2007
- Peak Five Years
- 7
- August 2003 – August 2008
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.18%
- week of Jul 29, 2007
- 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
3 books · 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Killer Weekend | #12 | 2 | 5.3 | ||
| Middle of Nowhere | #14 | 1 | 2.4 | ||
| Killer View | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
2006 in books →Ridley Pearson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2006 to August 2007. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Patterson319
- 2Mitch Albom312
- 3Janet Evanovich223
- 4Danielle Steel135
- 5Khaled Hosseini124
- 6Jodi Picoult118
- 7Nora Roberts115
- 8David Baldacci105
- 9Nicholas Sparks99
- 10J. R. R. Tolkien. Christopher Tolkien92
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2000s.