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Emily Henry

Charting May 14, 2023Sep 14, 2025 · 52 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    9 crowns

    20232025

    Longest reign 3 weeks (May 2023) · First crown May 2023

Peak Power
9.79%
week of Jul 30, 2023
Career Power
464
share-weeks
Crowns
9
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
200
May 2023 – May 2024
Peak Five Years
464
September 2020 – September 2025
Top-five weeks
29
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
52
weeks with chart power
Dominance
15.13%
week of May 11, 2025
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

5 books · 464 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
Happy Place#119199.8
Great Big Beautiful Life#117130.0
Funny Story#114114.9
Beach Read#419.6
People We Meet on Vacation#419.6

At their peak

2023 in books

Emily Henry's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2023 to May 2024. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros839
  2. 2Bonnie Garmus392
  3. 3James McBride257
  4. 4Barbara Kingsolver220
  5. 5Abraham Verghese207
  6. 6Emily Henry200
  7. 7Kristin Hannah191
  8. 8Ann Patchett170
  9. 9Stephen King143
  10. 10John Grisham141

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.