Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
George Saunders
Charting Jan 27, 2013 → Mar 15, 2026 · 23 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 crowns
20132026Longest reign 2 weeks (Mar 2017) · First crown Mar 2017
- Peak Power
- 5.29%
- week of Mar 10, 2013
- Career Power
- 173
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 3
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 76
- April 2012 – March 2013
- Peak Five Years
- 144
- April 2012 – April 2017
- Top-five weeks
- 11
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 23
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.62%
- week of Mar 12, 2017
- Comebacks
- 2
- Mar 2017 · Feb 2026, after 9 quiet years
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
4 books · 173 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenth of December | #2 | 10 | 75.5 | ||
| Lincoln in the Bardo | #1 | 8 | 68.5 | ||
| Vigil | #1 | 4 | 25.0 | ||
| Liberation Day | #10 | 1 | 4.2 |
At their peak
2012 in books →George Saunders's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2012 to March 2013. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Gillian Flynn474
- 2John Grisham296
- 3James Patterson258
- 4David Baldacci159
- 5George R. R. Martin133
- 6J. K. Rowling133
- 7Janet Evanovich121
- 8Danielle Steel116
- 9Ken Follett87
- 10Mitch Albom86
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.