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Delia Owens

Charting Sep 23, 2018Jul 31, 2022 · 132 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    57 crowns

    20182022

    Longest reign 9 weeks (Mar–Apr 2019) · First crown Jan 2019

Peak Power
13.99%
week of Sep 8, 2019
Career Power
1,391
share-weeks
Crowns
57
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
704
January 2019 – February 2020
Peak Five Years
1,391
July 2017 – July 2022
Top-five weeks
94
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
132
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.63%
week of Apr 21, 2019
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 · 1,391 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
Where the Crawdads Sing#11321,390.5

At their peak

2019 in books

Delia Owens's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2019 to February 2020. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Delia Owens704
  2. 2James Patterson245
  3. 3David Baldacci226
  4. 4John Grisham214
  5. 5Alex Michaelides175
  6. 6Danielle Steel157
  7. 7Stephen King143
  8. 8Ann Patchett94
  9. 9Elin Hilderbrand91
  10. 10Margaret Atwood91

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.