Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Grady Hendrix
Charting Apr 26, 2020 → Feb 16, 2025 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.49%
- week of Feb 16, 2025
- Career Power
- 52
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 26
- February 2024 – February 2025
- Peak Five Years
- 52
- March 2020 – February 2025
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.94%
- week of Feb 2, 2025
- Comebacks
- 1
- Feb 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
4 books · 52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Witchcraft for Wayward Girls | #2 | 3 | 26.4 | ||
| How to Sell a Haunted House | #5 | 3 | 19.2 | ||
| The Final Girl Support Group | #11 | 1 | 3.6 | ||
| The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
2024 in books →Grady Hendrix's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2024 to February 2025. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Rebecca Yarros683
- 2Kristin Hannah659
- 3Percival Everett230
- 4Liz Moore174
- 5James Patterson150
- 6Nicholas Sparks145
- 7Emily Henry125
- 8Sally Rooney99
- 9Chris Whitaker94
- 10Elin Hilderbrand93
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2020s.