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David Lagercrantz portraitDavid Lagercrantz

Charting Sep 27, 2015Oct 20, 2019 · 25 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20152019

    First crown Oct 2015

Peak Power
5.09%
week of Nov 1, 2015
Career Power
173
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
77
January 2015 – January 2016
Peak Five Years
173
October 2014 – October 2019
Top-five weeks
11
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Sep 27, 2015
Comebacks
2
Oct 2017 · Sep 2019

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

3 books · 173 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 Girl in the Spider's Web#21177.4
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye#2852.7
The Girl Who Lived Twice#3643.4

At their peak

2015 in books

David Lagercrantz's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2015 to January 2016. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Paula Hawkins545
  2. 2Anthony Doerr542
  3. 3John Grisham221
  4. 4James Patterson221
  5. 5Kristin Hannah216
  6. 6Harper Lee187
  7. 7Stephen King175
  8. 8David Baldacci173
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks121
  10. 10Anne Tyler87

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.