Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
William Gibson
Charting Sep 5, 1993 → Feb 9, 2020 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.97%
- week of Mar 16, 2003
- Career Power
- 57
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 22
- March 2002 – March 2003
- Peak Five Years
- 36
- September 2002 – September 2007
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Feb 23, 2003
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 2007
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 · 57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pattern Recognition | #4 | 4 | 22.3 | ||
| Spook Country | #6 | 3 | 14.1 | ||
| Zero History | #9 | 2 | 6.9 | ||
| The Peripheral | #9 | 1 | 4.8 | ||
| Virtual Light | #14 | 2 | 4.5 | ||
| Agency | #10 | 1 | 4.2 |
At their peak
2002 in books →William Gibson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2002 to March 2003. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Alice Sebold426
- 2John Grisham315
- 3James Patterson221
- 4Danielle Steel189
- 5Stephen King168
- 6Tom Clancy141
- 7Michael Crichton125
- 8Emma McLaughlin119
- 9Nicola Kraus119
- 10Jean M. Auel116
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.