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Hanya Yanagihara portraitHanya Yanagihara

Charting Jan 30, 2022Feb 6, 2022 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20222022

    First crown Jan 2022

Peak Power
1.87%
week of Feb 6, 2022
Career Power
19
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
19
February 2021 – February 2022
Peak Five Years
19
February 2017 – February 2022
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jan 30, 2022
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 · 19 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
To Paradise#1218.7

At their peak

2021 in books

Hanya Yanagihara's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2021 to February 2022. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Matt Haig361
  2. 2Laura Dave288
  3. 3John Grisham282
  4. 4Kristin Hannah214
  5. 5Amanda Gorman173
  6. 6James Patterson169
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks158
  8. 8Amor Towles146
  9. 9V. E. Schwab142
  10. 10Stephen King141

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.