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A.J. Finn portraitA.J. Finn

Charting Jan 21, 2018Sep 30, 2018 · 31 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    4 crowns

    20182018

    Longest reign 4 weeks (Jan–Feb 2018) · First crown Jan 2018

Peak Power
7.95%
week of Apr 1, 2018
Career Power
201
share-weeks
Crowns
4
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
201
October 2017 – September 2018
Peak Five Years
201
September 2013 – September 2018
Top-five weeks
11
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
31
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jan 21, 2018
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 · 201 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Woman in the Window#131200.8

At their peak

2017 in books

A.J. Finn's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2017 to September 2018. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson286
  2. 2Celeste Ng246
  3. 3Dan Brown240
  4. 4Stephen King221
  5. 5Lisa Wingate202
  6. 6A.J. Finn201
  7. 7John Grisham186
  8. 8Danielle Steel177
  9. 9David Baldacci165
  10. 10Kristin Hannah145

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.