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Ayana Gray portraitAyana Gray

Charting Dec 7, 2025Dec 7, 2025 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.31%
week of Dec 7, 2025
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
3
December 2024 – December 2025
Peak Five Years
3
December 2020 – December 2025
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.86%
week of Dec 7, 2025
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

1 book · 3 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.

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I, Medusa#1312.9

At their peak

2024 in books

Ayana Gray's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 2024 to December 2025. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros601
  2. 2Percival Everett238
  3. 3Kristin Hannah215
  4. 4Taylor Jenkins Reid171
  5. 5Alison Espach152
  6. 6Emily Henry140
  7. 7Clare Leslie Hall137
  8. 8James Patterson134
  9. 9Dan Brown123
  10. 10Fredrik Backman123

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.