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Alaina Urquhart

Charting Oct 2, 2022Aug 30, 2026 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20222026

    First crown Oct 2024

Peak Power
2.27%
week of Oct 23, 2022
Career Power
56
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
26
October 2021 – October 2022
Peak Five Years
56
September 2021 – August 2026
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.76%
week of Oct 6, 2024
Comebacks
2
Oct 2024 · Aug 2026

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

3 books · 56 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 Butcher and the Wren#2426.5
The Butcher Game#1217.2
The Butcher Legacy#3112.1

At their peak

2021 in books

Alaina Urquhart's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2021 to October 2022. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham313
  2. 2Matt Haig297
  3. 3David Baldacci219
  4. 4Amor Towles210
  5. 5James Patterson203
  6. 6Laura Dave190
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks152
  8. 8Lucy Foley142
  9. 9Mitch Albom136
  10. 10Elin Hilderbrand133

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.