Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Colson Whitehead
Charting Nov 6, 2011 → Aug 9, 2026 · 61 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
5 crowns
20112026Longest reign 3 weeks (Aug–Sep 2016) · First crown Aug 2016
- Peak Power
- 8.23%
- week of Feb 19, 2017
- Career Power
- 424
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 5
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 269
- May 2016 – May 2017
- Peak Five Years
- 346
- October 2014 – October 2019
- Top-five weeks
- 29
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 61
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Aug 28, 2016
- Comebacks
- 2
- Aug 2019 · Oct 2021
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
6 books · 424 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Underground Railroad | #1 | 37 | 269.3 | ||
| The Nickel Boys | #3 | 11 | 76.5 | ||
| Harlem Shuffle | #2 | 8 | 51.9 | ||
| Crook Manifesto | #6 | 3 | 14.1 | ||
| Cool Machine | #4 | 1 | 10.3 | ||
| Zone One | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
2016 in books →Colson Whitehead's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2016 to May 2017. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Colson Whitehead269
- 2James Patterson265
- 3John Grisham222
- 4Nicholas Sparks215
- 5Danielle Steel192
- 6David Baldacci160
- 7Jodi Picoult138
- 8Ruth Ware129
- 9Neil Gaiman125
- 10Anthony Doerr112
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.