Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Return of the Spider
Entered Dec 7, 2025 · peaked at #4 on Dec 7, 2025 · 7 weeks on the list, last seen Jan 18, 2026
Cover image: The New York Times · the artwork is the publisher’s.
- Book Power
- 42.2
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 6
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 7
- December 2025 – January 2026
Ranked by Book Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a list published by anyone else. How it works →
The run
Position by week; a gap is a spell off the list.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.
| Author | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Patterson | primary | 100% | 42.9 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Dec 7, 2025 on the timeline →- #1BrimstoneCallie Hart
- #2The Seven RingsNora Roberts
- #3QuicksilverCallie Hart
- #4Return of the SpiderJames Patterson
- #5The WidowJohn Grisham
- #6The Secret of SecretsDan Brown
- #7Nash FallsDavid Baldacci
- #8The Bond That BurnsBriar Boleyn
- #9Exit StrategyLee Child & Andrew Child
- #10AlchemisedSenLinYu