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Donna Tartt

Charting Sep 20, 1992Feb 1, 2015 · 74 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    5 crowns

    19922015

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Feb–Mar 2014) · First crown Jan 2014

Peak Power
10.89%
week of Jun 15, 2014
Career Power
589
share-weeks
Crowns
5
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
483
November 2013 – November 2014
Peak Five Years
503
February 2010 – February 2015
Top-five weeks
43
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
74
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.63%
week of Feb 9, 2014
Comebacks
1
Nov 2013, after 21 quiet years

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 · 589 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 Goldfinch#160502.8
The Secret History#3968.7
The Little Friend#8517.9

At their peak

2013 in books

Donna Tartt's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 2013 to November 2014. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Donna Tartt483
  2. 2John Grisham218
  3. 3James Patterson209
  4. 4Sue Monk Kidd186
  5. 5Stephen King181
  6. 6Mitch Albom130
  7. 7Liane Moriarty123
  8. 8Janet Evanovich120
  9. 9David Baldacci120
  10. 10Anthony Doerr115

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.