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Eric Puchner portraitEric Puchner

Charting Mar 9, 2025Mar 16, 2025 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.59%
week of Mar 16, 2025
Career Power
6
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
6
March 2024 – March 2025
Peak Five Years
6
March 2020 – March 2025
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.49%
week of Mar 9, 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

1 book · 6 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
Dream State#1225.8

At their peak

2024 in books

Eric Puchner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2024 to March 2025. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros714
  2. 2Kristin Hannah650
  3. 3Percival Everett268
  4. 4Liz Moore194
  5. 5James Patterson152
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks145
  7. 7Emily Henry125
  8. 8Alison Espach108
  9. 9Sally Rooney99
  10. 10Chris Whitaker94

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.