Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Barbara Kingsolver
Charting Jun 27, 1993 → Mar 17, 2024 · 160 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.89%
- week of Mar 12, 2023
- Career Power
- 898
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 327
- November 2022 – October 2023
- Peak Five Years
- 396
- March 2019 – March 2024
- Top-five weeks
- 34
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 160
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jan 17, 1999
- Comebacks
- 6
- Nov 1998, after 5 quiet years · Nov 2000 · Dec 2009, after 9 quiet years · Dec 2012 · Nov 2018, after 6 quiet years · Nov 2022
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
7 books · 898 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demon Copperhead | #2 | 70 | 396.4 | ||
| The Poisonwood Bible | #2 | 29 | 177.7 | ||
| Prodigal Summer | #3 | 22 | 121.8 | ||
| Pigs in Heaven | #6 | 17 | 82.2 | ||
| The Lacuna | #5 | 8 | 40.6 | ||
| Unsheltered | #3 | 6 | 40.2 | ||
| Flight Behavior | #3 | 8 | 39.7 |
At their peak
2022 in books →Barbara Kingsolver's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 2022 to October 2023. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Bonnie Garmus557
- 2Barbara Kingsolver327
- 3Rebecca Yarros281
- 4Gabrielle Zevin251
- 5Stephen King237
- 6Emily Henry200
- 7John Grisham192
- 8Abraham Verghese164
- 9James Patterson159
- 10Ann Napolitano125
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.