Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Fredrik Backman
Charting May 14, 2017 → Oct 5, 2025 · 51 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
20172025First 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 →
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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| My Friends | #3 | 20 | 123.2 | ||
| Anxious People | #1 | 24 | 102.8 | ||
| The Winners | #5 | 4 | 20.4 | ||
| Beartown | #5 | 2 | 12.6 | ||
| Us Against You | #9 | 1 | 4.8 |
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:
- 1Rebecca Yarros631
- 2Kristin Hannah307
- 3Percival Everett268
- 4Taylor Jenkins Reid174
- 5Alison Espach152
- 6Emily Henry149
- 7Liz Moore147
- 8Nicholas Sparks145
- 9Clare Leslie Hall137
- 10James Patterson130
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.