Desperate Measures

What it earned each author

Book Power is the book's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each author's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the author had other books charting is split between them.

1. #1Every BreathNicholas Sparks
2. #2The Next Person You Meet in HeavenMitch Albom
3. #3UnshelteredBarbara Kingsolver
4. #4A Spark of LightJodi Picoult
5. #5AmbushJames Patterson & James O. Born
6. #6Holy GhostJohn Sandford
7. #7The Witch ElmTana French
8. #8Vince Flynn: Red WarKyle Mills
9. #9Winter in ParadiseElin Hilderbrand
10. #10When We Were YoungKaren Kingsbury

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 2018.

• The Rooster Bar · John Grisham
• Origin · Dan Brown
• The Woman in the Window · A.J. Finn
• Dark in Death · J. D. Robb
• The Great Alone · Kristin Hannah
• The Escape Artist · Brad Meltzer
• The Rising Sea · Clive Cussler & Graham Brown
• Accidental Heroes · Danielle Steel
• The Disappeared · C. J. Box
• I've Got My Eyes on You · Mary Higgins Clark
• Circe · Madeline Miller
• The Fallen · David Baldacci
• Twisted Prey · John Sandford
• The 17th Suspect · James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
• The Cast · Danielle Steel
• The Outsider · Stephen King
• The President Is Missing · Bill Clinton & James Patterson
• The Other Woman · Daniel Silva
• Thrawn: Alliances · Timothy Zahn
• Tailspin · Sandra Brown
• Texas Ranger · James Patterson & Andrew Bourelle
• The Fall of Gondolin · J.R.R. Tolkien
• Leverage in Death · J. D. Robb
• Juror #3 · James Patterson & Nancy Allen
• Lethal White · Robert Galbraith
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing · Hank Green
• A Spark of Light · Jodi Picoult
• The Next Person You Meet in Heaven · Mitch Albom
• Every Breath · Nicholas Sparks
• The Reckoning · John Grisham
• Elevation · Stephen King
• Past Tense · Lee Child
• Look Alive Twenty-Five · Janet Evanovich
• Fire and Blood · George R. R. Martin
• Kingdom of the Blind · Louise Penny