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Thomas Harris

Charting Feb 23, 1975 → Jun 16, 2019 · 63 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 crowns
19752019
Longest reign 2 weeks (Jul 1999) · First crown Jul 1999

Peak Power: 8.84%; week of Aug 15, 1999
Career Power: 397; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 177; January 1999 – January 2000
Peak Five Years: 177; January 1995 – January 2000
Top-five weeks: 18; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 63; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 15.04%; week of Jul 11, 1999
Comebacks: 4; Mar 1982, after 6 quiet years · Oct 1988, after 6 quiet years · Jun 1999, after 11 quiet years · Jan 2007, after 7 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

6 books · 397 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
Hannibal	#1June 1999	18	June 1999 – January 2000	177.0	169.6
Black Sunday	#6April 1975	14	February 1975 – June 1975	75.1	75.1
Hannibal Rising	#5December 2006	12	December 2006 – March 2007	72.8	72.5
The Silence of the Lambs	#6October 1988	8	September 1988 – October 1988	35.7	35.7
Red Dragon	#12March 1982	9	December 1981 – April 1982	22.7	22.7
Cari Mora	#3June 2019	2	June 2019 – June 2019	13.8	13.8

At their peak

1999 in books →

Thomas Harris's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1999 to January 2000. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.