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Alex Michaelides

Charting Feb 24, 2019Mar 10, 2024 · 69 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    2 crowns

    20192024

    First crown Feb 2019

Peak Power
6.15%
week of May 10, 2020
Career Power
379
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
205
February 2019 – March 2020
Peak Five Years
372
February 2019 – February 2024
Top-five weeks
17
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
69
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Feb 24, 2019
Comebacks
1
Feb 2024

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 · 379 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 Silent Patient#156301.3
The Maidens#2740.3
The Fury#3637.0

At their peak

2019 in books

Alex Michaelides's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2019 to March 2020. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Delia Owens697
  2. 2James Patterson243
  3. 3David Baldacci223
  4. 4Alex Michaelides205
  5. 5John Grisham195
  6. 6Stephen King151
  7. 7Danielle Steel128
  8. 8Ann Patchett118
  9. 9Elin Hilderbrand91
  10. 10Margaret Atwood91

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.