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Barbara Kingsolver portraitBarbara Kingsolver

Charting Jun 27, 1993Mar 17, 2024 · 160 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Demon Copperhead#270396.4
The Poisonwood Bible#229177.7
Prodigal Summer#322121.8
Pigs in Heaven#61782.2
The Lacuna#5840.6
Unsheltered#3640.2
Flight Behavior#3839.7

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:

  1. 1Bonnie Garmus557
  2. 2Barbara Kingsolver327
  3. 3Rebecca Yarros281
  4. 4Gabrielle Zevin251
  5. 5Stephen King237
  6. 6Emily Henry200
  7. 7John Grisham192
  8. 8Abraham Verghese164
  9. 9James Patterson159
  10. 10Ann Napolitano125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.