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Charles Soule portraitCharles Soule

Charting Jan 24, 2021Feb 14, 2021 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20212021

    First crown Jan 2021

Peak Power
2.64%
week of Feb 7, 2021
Career Power
30
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
30
February 2020 – February 2021
Peak Five Years
30
February 2016 – February 2021
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jan 24, 2021
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 · 30 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
Star Wars: Light of the Jedi#1430.4

At their peak

2020 in books

Charles Soule's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2020 to February 2021. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Delia Owens528
  2. 2Brit Bennett332
  3. 3John Grisham327
  4. 4Jeanine Cummins224
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks176
  6. 6James Patterson176
  7. 7Stephen King129
  8. 8Lucy Foley123
  9. 9Elin Hilderbrand121
  10. 10Danielle Steel117

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.