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Andy Weir portraitAndy Weir

Charting Mar 2, 2014Jun 14, 2026 · 31 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.23%
week of Jul 11, 2021
Career Power
158
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
85
January 2021 – January 2022
Peak Five Years
141
January 2017 – January 2022
Top-five weeks
6
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
31
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Jun 6, 2021
Comebacks
2
Dec 2017 · May 2021

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 · 158 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
Project Hail Mary#31784.7
Artemis#4956.1
The Martian#9517.4

At their peak

2021 in books

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

  1. 1Matt Haig339
  2. 2John Grisham268
  3. 3Laura Dave259
  4. 4Kristin Hannah214
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks174
  6. 6James Patterson173
  7. 7V. E. Schwab172
  8. 8Brit Bennett152
  9. 9Stephen King143
  10. 10Amanda Gorman139

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.