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Don Winslow portraitDon Winslow

Charting Aug 2, 2015Apr 21, 2024 · 11 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.81%
week of Mar 31, 2019
Career Power
57
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
20
May 2022 – May 2023
Peak Five Years
41
May 2017 – May 2022
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Mar 17, 2019
Comebacks
1
May 2022

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

6 books · 57 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 Border#3319.4
City on Fire#3213.5
The Force#1028.3
City of Dreams#716.3
City in Ruins#915.0
The Cartel#1424.5

At their peak

2022 in books

Don Winslow's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2022 to May 2023. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Bonnie Garmus393
  2. 2John Grisham311
  3. 3Stephen King246
  4. 4David Baldacci234
  5. 5Gabrielle Zevin230
  6. 6James Patterson201
  7. 7Barbara Kingsolver177
  8. 8Matt Haig144
  9. 9Elin Hilderbrand133
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks128

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.