Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Alex Aster
Charting Apr 13, 2025 → Jun 7, 2026 · 13 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
20252026First 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 →
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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starside | #1 | 8 | 56.2 | ||
| Summer in the City | #2 | 5 | 37.6 |
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:
- 1Virginia Evans323
- 2Dan Brown225
- 3John Grisham210
- 4SenLinYu210
- 5Matt Dinniman207
- 6Taylor Jenkins Reid177
- 7James Patterson163
- 8Rebecca Yarros161
- 9Callie Hart148
- 10Stephen King101
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2020s.