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Andrew Child

Charting Nov 15, 2020Dec 28, 2025 · 43 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
2.09%
week of Jan 10, 2021
Career Power
140
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
34
January 2020 – January 2021
Peak Five Years
126
January 2020 – December 2024
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
43
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.33%
week of Nov 10, 2024
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

6 books · 140 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 Sentinelwith Lee Child#11033.5
In Too Deepwith Lee Child#1827.2
No Plan Bwith Lee Child#2926.9
The Secretwith Lee Child#2720.4
Better Off Deadwith Lee Child#2417.9
Exit Strategywith Lee Child#3513.6

At their peak

2020 in books

Andrew Child's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2020 to January 2021. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Delia Owens547
  2. 2John Grisham338
  3. 3Brit Bennett280
  4. 4Jeanine Cummins251
  5. 5James Patterson185
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks153
  7. 7Stephen King142
  8. 8Alex Michaelides138
  9. 9David Baldacci126
  10. 10Elin Hilderbrand121

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.