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Sandra Brown portraitSandra Brown

Charting Aug 11, 1991Apr 5, 2026 · 194 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    6 crowns

    19912026

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Sep 2006) · First crown Sep 2005

Peak Power
5.35%
week of Aug 17, 1997
Career Power
1,269
share-weeks
Crowns
6
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
119
April 2000 – April 2001
Peak Five Years
417
May 1997 – April 2002
Top-five weeks
66
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
194
weeks with chart power
Dominance
15.30%
week of Sep 19, 1999
Comebacks
1
Sep 2016

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

45 books · 1,269 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
Fat Tuesday#21285.3
Exclusive#31063.7
Envy#2760.4
The Switch#2659.5
The Alibi#1755.4
Ricochet#2653.4
The Witness#51153.0
Tailspin#1547.8
Unspeakable#3847.8
Chill Factor#1646.4
Play Dirty#2542.1
White Hot#2439.1
Smoke Screen#1538.9
Seeing Red#1435.5
Lethal#2433.8
Sting#2432.8
French Silk#6732.6
Riley in the Morning#3430.7
The Crush#4429.4
Tough Customer#2429.0
Standoff#7525.1
Send No Flowers#4424.3
Smash Cut#2423.9
Hello, Darkness#5422.2
Low Pressure#5421.6
Outfox#5419.9
Overkill#3319.7
Mean Streak#5318.9
Thick as Thieves#3318.8
Charade#10516.6
Friction#4215.1
Thursday's Child#7314.6
Texas! Sage#11514.4
Where There's Smoke#6414.2
Out of Nowhere#4212.7
Blind Tiger#5212.5
Blood Moon#5211.9
Bloodlust#3111.5
Deadline#7210.0
The Silken Web#1238.0
Tidings of Great Joy#1325.2
The Devil's Own#1113.6
Sunny Chandler's Return#1312.8
Honor Bound#1312.8
A KISS Remembered#1512.1

At their peak

2000 in books

Sandra Brown's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2000 to April 2001. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1J. K. Rowling308
  2. 2Danielle Steel292
  3. 3John Grisham253
  4. 4James Patterson244
  5. 5Tom Clancy183
  6. 6Jerry B. Jenkins156
  7. 7Tim LaHaye156
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark152
  9. 9Barbara Kingsolver122
  10. 10Sandra Brown119

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.