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Bonnie Garmus portraitBonnie Garmus

Charting Apr 24, 2022Apr 14, 2024 · 99 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    14 crowns

    20222024

    Longest reign 5 weeks (Dec 2022 – Jan 2023) · First crown Dec 2022

Peak Power
12.66%
week of Apr 30, 2023
Career Power
814
share-weeks
Crowns
14
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
586
December 2022 – November 2023
Peak Five Years
814
April 2019 – April 2024
Top-five weeks
57
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
99
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Dec 25, 2022
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 · 814 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
Lessons in Chemistry#199814.1

At their peak

2022 in books

Bonnie Garmus's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 2022 to November 2023. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Bonnie Garmus586
  2. 2Rebecca Yarros339
  3. 3Barbara Kingsolver317
  4. 4Gabrielle Zevin251
  5. 5Stephen King226
  6. 6Emily Henry200
  7. 7John Grisham188
  8. 8Abraham Verghese179
  9. 9James Patterson142
  10. 10Ann Patchett139

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.