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Emily St. John Mandel portraitEmily St. John Mandel

Charting Oct 19, 2014May 10, 2020 · 13 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.80%
week of May 10, 2020
Career Power
57
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
33
May 2019 – May 2020
Peak Five Years
33
April 2015 – May 2020
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Apr 12, 2020
Comebacks
1
Apr 2020, 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 · 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 Glass Hotel#4533.2
Station Eleven#10823.5

At their peak

2019 in books

Emily St. John Mandel's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2019 to May 2020. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Delia Owens688
  2. 2David Baldacci235
  3. 3James Patterson222
  4. 4Alex Michaelides192
  5. 5John Grisham171
  6. 6Stephen King166
  7. 7Jeanine Cummins163
  8. 8Ann Patchett153
  9. 9Danielle Steel121
  10. 10Jojo Moyes99

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.