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Amanda Gorman portraitAmanda Gorman

Charting Apr 18, 2021Jun 25, 2023 · 22 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    4 crowns

    20212023

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Apr 2021) · First crown Apr 2021

Peak Power
6.56%
week of Jun 6, 2021
Career Power
184
share-weeks
Crowns
4
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
176
February 2021 – February 2022
Peak Five Years
184
June 2018 – June 2023
Top-five weeks
12
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
22
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Apr 18, 2021
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 · 184 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 Hill We Climb#114117.5
Call Us What We Carry#1866.5

At their peak

2021 in books

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

  1. 1Matt Haig363
  2. 2Laura Dave296
  3. 3John Grisham286
  4. 4Kristin Hannah214
  5. 5Amanda Gorman176
  6. 6James Patterson166
  7. 7Amor Towles157
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks154
  9. 9Stephen King141
  10. 10V. E. Schwab133

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.