Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Fredrik Backman
Charting May 14, 2017 → Oct 5, 2025 · 51 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.75%
- week of Sep 14, 2025
- Career Power
- 264
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 1
- weeks as the top author
- 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
- September 2020, October 2022, June 2025
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Aug 13, 2017 | Sep 27, 2020 | 161 | 115 | 1.27% | 1.58% |
| After decline | Jun 6, 2021 | Oct 23, 2022 | 72 | 71 | 3.71% | 1.50% |
| After absence | Dec 18, 2022 | Jun 1, 2025 | 128 | 127 | 3.71% | 1.87% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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.
| 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 |