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Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Charting Apr 10, 2016May 9, 2021 · 20 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.22%
week of Jun 12, 2016
Career Power
129
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
115
August 2015 – August 2016
Peak Five Years
115
August 2011 – August 2016
Top-five weeks
10
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
20
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Apr 17, 2016
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 · 129 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
The Nest#217114.9
Good Company#4314.4

At their peak

2015 in books

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2015 to August 2016. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Paula Hawkins400
  2. 2Anthony Doerr387
  3. 3Kristin Hannah239
  4. 4James Patterson216
  5. 5Harper Lee208
  6. 6John Grisham187
  7. 7Stephen King183
  8. 8David Baldacci148
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks145
  10. 10Danielle Steel133

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.