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Cassandra Clare portraitCassandra Clare

Charting Oct 29, 2023Mar 23, 2025 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.46%
week of Nov 12, 2023
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
16
November 2022 – November 2023
Peak Five Years
24
April 2020 – March 2025
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Oct 29, 2023
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

2 books · 24 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
Sword Catcher#4315.8
The Ragpicker King#618.0

At their peak

2022 in books

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

  1. 1Bonnie Garmus574
  2. 2Barbara Kingsolver320
  3. 3Rebecca Yarros304
  4. 4Gabrielle Zevin251
  5. 5Stephen King232
  6. 6Emily Henry200
  7. 7John Grisham192
  8. 8Abraham Verghese172
  9. 9James Patterson159
  10. 10Ann Patchett127

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.