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Helen Simonson

Charting Mar 28, 2010May 15, 2016 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.07%
week of May 15, 2016
Career Power
29
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
26
May 2015 – May 2016
Peak Five Years
26
May 2011 – May 2016
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Apr 10, 2016
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

2 books · 29 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 Summer Before the War#7626.4
Major Pettigrew’S Last Stand#1412.4

At their peak

2015 in books

Helen Simonson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2015 to May 2016. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Anthony Doerr483
  2. 2Paula Hawkins478
  3. 3Kristin Hannah251
  4. 4Harper Lee223
  5. 5James Patterson204
  6. 6John Grisham187
  7. 7David Baldacci170
  8. 8Stephen King170
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks145
  10. 10Danielle Steel86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.