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Elizabeth Gilbert portraitElizabeth Gilbert

Charting Oct 20, 2013Aug 25, 2019 · 15 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.94%
week of Aug 4, 2019
Career Power
101
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
78
September 2018 – August 2019
Peak Five Years
78
August 2014 – August 2019
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.72%
week of Jun 23, 2019
Comebacks
1
Jun 2019, after 5 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

2 books · 101 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
City of Girls#21077.7
The Signature of All Things#4522.8

At their peak

2018 in books

Elizabeth Gilbert's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2018 to August 2019. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Delia Owens541
  2. 2James Patterson285
  3. 3John Grisham211
  4. 4David Baldacci179
  5. 5George R. R. Martin169
  6. 6Danielle Steel150
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks138
  8. 8Alex Michaelides131
  9. 9Stephen King107
  10. 10Elin Hilderbrand98

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.