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Amor Towles portraitAmor Towles

Charting Aug 14, 2011Jun 2, 2024 · 98 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20112024

    First crown Oct 2021

Peak Power
8.55%
week of Mar 13, 2022
Career Power
490
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
224
May 2021 – May 2022
Peak Five Years
368
March 2017 – March 2022
Top-five weeks
21
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
98
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Oct 24, 2021
Comebacks
2
Oct 2021 · May 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

4 books · 490 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 Lincoln Highway#130224.2
A Gentleman in Moscow#659216.2
Table for Two#2745.4
Rules of Civility#1324.6

At their peak

2021 in books

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

  1. 1Laura Dave344
  2. 2Matt Haig339
  3. 3John Grisham287
  4. 4Amor Towles224
  5. 5James Patterson197
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks144
  7. 7Stephen King142
  8. 8Mitch Albom136
  9. 9Taylor Jenkins Reid123
  10. 10Danielle Steel117

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.