2015 in books
Who ruled 2015? Anthony Doerr was Author of the Year on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list. Every #1 bestseller of 2015, the biggest books and the top authors.
NYT Hardcover Fiction
| # | Author | Era Power | Crowns | Top-five weeks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthony Doerr | 526 | 3 | 43 |
| 2 | Paula Hawkins | 515 | 20 | 34 |
| 3 | James Patterson | 216 | 1 | 9 |
| 4 | John Grisham | 210 | 7 | 15 |
| 5 | Kristin Hannah | 201 | 0 | 6 |
| 6 | David Baldacci | 174 | 1 | 12 |
| 7 | Stephen King | 172 | 2 | 13 |
| 8 | Harper Lee | 171 | 6 | 10 |
| 9 | Nicholas Sparks | 92 | 1 | 7 |
| 10 | Anne Tyler | 87 | 0 | 7 |
| First week at #1 | Title | Author | Weeks at #1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 2015 | Gray Mountain | John Grisham | 2 |
| Jan 18, 2015 | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | 3 |
| Feb 8, 2015 | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | 19 |
| May 10, 2015 | Memory Man | David Baldacci | 1 |
| May 17, 2015 | Gathering Prey | John Sandford | 1 |
| May 24, 2015 | 14th Deadly Sin | James Patterson & Maxine Paetro | 1 |
| Jun 14, 2015 | Radiant Angel | Nelson DeMille | 1 |
| Jun 21, 2015 | Finders Keepers | Stephen King | 1 |
| Jul 19, 2015 | The English Spy | Daniel Silva | 1 |
| Aug 2, 2015 | Go Set a Watchman | Harper Lee | 6 |
| Sep 13, 2015 | X | Sue Grafton | 1 |
| Sep 27, 2015 | Make Me | Lee Child | 2 |
| Oct 11, 2015 | Come Rain or Come Shine | Jan Karon | 1 |
| Oct 18, 2015 | The Murder House | James Patterson & David Ellis | 1 |
| Oct 25, 2015 | The Survivor | Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills | 1 |
| Nov 1, 2015 | See Me | Nicholas Sparks | 1 |
| Nov 8, 2015 | Rogue Lawyer | John Grisham | 5 |
| Nov 22, 2015 | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | Stephen King | 1 |
| Dec 6, 2015 | Tricky Twenty-Two | Janet Evanovich | 1 |
| Dec 13, 2015 | Cross Justice | James Patterson | 1 |
| # | Title | Author | Peak | Weeks | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | #1 | 77 | 775.3 |
| 2 | The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah | #2 | 85 | 443.5 |
| 3 | Go Set a Watchman | Harper Lee | #1 | 33 | 222.8 |
| 4 | Rogue Lawyer | John Grisham | #1 | 19 | 187.1 |
| 5 | See Me | Nicholas Sparks | #1 | 18 | 145.4 |
| 6 | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | Stephen King | #1 | 11 | 98.1 |
| 7 | After You | Jojo Moyes | #3 | 20 | 94.5 |
| 8 | A Spool of Blue Thread | Anne Tyler | #3 | 13 | 87.1 |
| 9 | Memory Man | David Baldacci | #1 | 10 | 81.5 |
| 10 | The Girl in the Spider's Web | David Lagercrantz | #2 | 11 | 77.4 |
Author of the Year and the rankings are the ChartReign Power model: the author with the most chart power over the year, not the most #1s. Crowns are weeks crowned Author of the Week. How it works