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Celeste Ng portraitCeleste Ng

Charting Oct 1, 2017Dec 18, 2022 · 57 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
7.21%
week of May 13, 2018
Career Power
288
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
249
September 2017 – September 2018
Peak Five Years
253
December 2017 – December 2022
Top-five weeks
16
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
57
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Jan 21, 2018
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 · 288 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
Little Fires Everywhere#448251.9
Our Missing Hearts#5936.4

At their peak

2017 in books

Celeste Ng's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2017 to September 2018. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson268
  2. 2Celeste Ng249
  3. 3Dan Brown240
  4. 4Stephen King210
  5. 5Lisa Wingate199
  6. 6A.J. Finn199
  7. 7John Grisham196
  8. 8David Baldacci165
  9. 9Danielle Steel165
  10. 10Kristin Hannah145

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.