Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ashley Elston
Charting Jan 21, 2024 → Feb 22, 2026 · 20 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.77%
- week of Mar 17, 2024
- Career Power
- 115
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 93
- May 2023 – May 2024
- Peak Five Years
- 115
- March 2021 – February 2026
- Top-five weeks
- 9
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 20
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Feb 1, 2026
- Comebacks
- 1
- Feb 2026
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 · 115 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Lie Wins | #5 | 16 | 93.1 | ||
| Anatomy of an Alibi | #2 | 4 | 21.6 |
At their peak
2023 in books →Ashley Elston's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2023 to May 2024. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Rebecca Yarros826
- 2Bonnie Garmus411
- 3James McBride251
- 4Barbara Kingsolver220
- 5Abraham Verghese207
- 6Emily Henry200
- 7Ann Patchett170
- 8Kristin Hannah166
- 9Stephen King143
- 10John Grisham141
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2020s.