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Freida McFadden

Charting Oct 26, 2025Feb 8, 2026 · 15 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20252026

    First crown Oct 2025

Peak Power
4.30%
week of Jan 25, 2026
Career Power
88
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
88
February 2025 – February 2026
Peak Five Years
88
February 2021 – February 2026
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.88%
week of Oct 26, 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 · 88 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 Intruder#11588.2

At their peak

2025 in books

Freida McFadden's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2025 to February 2026. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros492
  2. 2Dan Brown215
  3. 3Taylor Jenkins Reid177
  4. 4John Grisham168
  5. 5SenLinYu162
  6. 6Callie Hart145
  7. 7Emily Henry140
  8. 8Clare Leslie Hall137
  9. 9Fredrik Backman123
  10. 10Virginia Evans120

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.