Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Stephen Coonts
Charting Nov 2, 1986 → Sep 7, 2008 · 69 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.05%
- week of Mar 22, 1987
- Career Power
- 317
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 138
- May 1986 – May 1987
- Peak Five Years
- 272
- December 1985 – December 1990
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 69
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Oct 23, 1988
- Comebacks
- 1
- Oct 1988
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
10 books · 317 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight of the Intruder | #7 | 28 | 137.6 | ||
| Final Flight | #4 | 16 | 83.7 | ||
| The Minotaur | #7 | 6 | 26.5 | ||
| Under Siege | #8 | 6 | 23.8 | ||
| America | #7 | 4 | 19.7 | ||
| Liberty | #7 | 2 | 8.7 | ||
| The Assassin | #12 | 3 | 7.4 | ||
| The Red Horseman | #14 | 2 | 4.5 | ||
| Cuba | #13 | 1 | 2.9 | ||
| Hong Kong | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1986 in books →Stephen Coonts's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1986 to May 1987. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephen King509
- 2Tom Clancy462
- 3Danielle Steel359
- 4Louis L'Amour206
- 5James Clavell202
- 6Pat Conroy200
- 7Sidney Sheldon194
- 8Robert Ludlum167
- 9Judith Krantz160
- 10John le Carré160
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.