Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
William Landay
Charting Feb 19, 2012 → Apr 15, 2012 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.18%
- week of Apr 15, 2012
- Career Power
- 63
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 63
- April 2011 – April 2012
- Peak Five Years
- 63
- April 2007 – April 2012
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Feb 26, 2012
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
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
1 book · 63 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defending Jacob | #3 | 9 | 62.9 |
At their peak
2011 in books →William Landay's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2011 to April 2012. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Patterson276
- 2George R. R. Martin204
- 3Stephen King183
- 4David Baldacci173
- 5Stieg Larsson156
- 6John Grisham137
- 7Janet Evanovich129
- 8Nicholas Sparks122
- 9Charlaine Harris107
- 10P.D. James106
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2010s.