Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Sara Gruen
Charting Jun 25, 2006 → May 31, 2015 · 22 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.90%
- week of Sep 24, 2006
- Career Power
- 90
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 45
- October 2005 – September 2006
- Peak Five Years
- 56
- October 2005 – October 2010
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 22
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Apr 19, 2015
- Comebacks
- 1
- Apr 2015, after 8 quiet years
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 · 90 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water for Elephants | #7 | 12 | 45.4 | ||
| At the Water's Edge | #6 | 7 | 34.4 | ||
| Ape House | #8 | 3 | 10.3 |
At their peak
2005 in books →Sara Gruen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2005 to September 2006. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Dan Brown321
- 2James Patterson312
- 3Patricia Cornwell174
- 4Nicholas Sparks158
- 5Danielle Steel153
- 6Nora Roberts138
- 7Dean Koontz118
- 8Mary Higgins Clark105
- 9Stephen King100
- 10Sue Grafton94
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.