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Donna Leon portraitDonna Leon

Charting Apr 22, 2012Apr 2, 2023 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.92%
week of Apr 26, 2015
Career Power
46
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
14
March 2015 – March 2016
Peak Five Years
36
April 2012 – April 2017
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.38%
week of Apr 26, 2015
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

9 books · 46 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
By Its Cover#728.7
Falling in Love#518.4
The Golden Egg#716.3
The Waters of Eternal Youth#815.5
Beastly Things#1014.2
The Temptation of Forgiveness#1113.6
Earthly Remains#1213.2
Unto Us a Son Is Given#1213.2
So Shall You Reap#1312.8

At their peak

2015 in books

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

  1. 1Paula Hawkins533
  2. 2Anthony Doerr519
  3. 3Kristin Hannah249
  4. 4Harper Lee216
  5. 5James Patterson204
  6. 6John Grisham190
  7. 7Stephen King170
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks145
  9. 9David Baldacci143
  10. 10David Lagercrantz77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.