Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Helen Simonson
Charting Mar 28, 2010 → May 15, 2016 · 7 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Summer Before the War | #7 | 6 | 26.4 | ||
| Major Pettigrew’S Last Stand | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
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:
- 1Anthony Doerr483
- 2Paula Hawkins478
- 3Kristin Hannah251
- 4Harper Lee223
- 5James Patterson204
- 6John Grisham187
- 7David Baldacci170
- 8Stephen King170
- 9Nicholas Sparks145
- 10Danielle Steel86
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2010s.