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Alex Aster

Charting Apr 13, 2025Jun 7, 2026 · 13 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20252026

    First crown Apr 2026

Peak Power
3.93%
week of May 24, 2026
Career Power
94
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
56
June 2025 – June 2026
Peak Five Years
94
June 2021 – June 2026
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.90%
week of Apr 19, 2026
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

2 books · 94 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
Starside#1856.2
Summer in the City#2537.6

At their peak

2025 in books

Alex Aster's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2025 to June 2026. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Virginia Evans323
  2. 2Dan Brown225
  3. 3John Grisham210
  4. 4SenLinYu210
  5. 5Matt Dinniman207
  6. 6Taylor Jenkins Reid177
  7. 7James Patterson163
  8. 8Rebecca Yarros161
  9. 9Callie Hart148
  10. 10Stephen King101

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.