Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Stephen Hunter
Charting Jul 23, 2000 → Jun 15, 2014 · 17 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.65%
- week of Feb 24, 2013
- Career Power
- 54
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 19
- March 2012 – February 2013
- Peak Five Years
- 45
- June 2009 – June 2014
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 17
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Feb 3, 2013
- Comebacks
- 1
- Feb 2013
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 · 54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Third Bullet | #5 | 4 | 19.0 | ||
| I, Sniper | #14 | 6 | 14.1 | ||
| Sniper's Honor | #7 | 2 | 9.1 | ||
| The 47th Samurai | #13 | 2 | 5.2 | ||
| Hot Springs | #14 | 2 | 4.2 | ||
| Dead Zero | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
2012 in books →Stephen Hunter's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2012 to February 2013. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Gillian Flynn421
- 2John Grisham292
- 3James Patterson232
- 4David Baldacci159
- 5George R. R. Martin143
- 6J. K. Rowling133
- 7Janet Evanovich121
- 8Vince Flynn119
- 9Danielle Steel109
- 10Ken Follett87
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.