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Fredrik Backman portraitFredrik Backman

Charting May 14, 2017Oct 5, 2025 · 51 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20172025

    First crown Sep 2020

Peak Power
5.75%
week of Sep 14, 2025
Career Power
264
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
123
October 2024 – October 2025
Peak Five Years
234
September 2020 – September 2025
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
51
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Sep 27, 2020
Comebacks
3
Sep 2020 · Oct 2022 · Jun 2025

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 · 264 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
My Friends#320123.2
Anxious People#124102.8
The Winners#5420.4
Beartown#5212.6
Us Against You#914.8

At their peak

2024 in books

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

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros631
  2. 2Kristin Hannah307
  3. 3Percival Everett268
  4. 4Taylor Jenkins Reid174
  5. 5Alison Espach152
  6. 6Emily Henry149
  7. 7Liz Moore147
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks145
  9. 9Clare Leslie Hall137
  10. 10James Patterson130

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.