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Hilary Mantel

Charting Nov 1, 2009 → May 10, 2020 · 22 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20092020

    First crown Mar 2020

Peak Power
3.10%
week of Apr 26, 2020
Career Power
107
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
42
May 2019 – May 2020
Peak Five Years
62
July 2007 – July 2012
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
22
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Mar 29, 2020
Comebacks
2
May 2012 · Mar 2020, after 7 quiet years

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 · 107 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 Mirror & the Light#1742.5
Bring Up the Bodies#3841.6
Wolf Hall#7620.9
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher#1512.1

At their peak

2019 in books →

Hilary Mantel's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2019 to May 2020. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Delia Owens688
  2. 2David Baldacci235
  3. 3James Patterson222
  4. 4Alex Michaelides192
  5. 5John Grisham171
  6. 6Stephen King166
  7. 7Jeanine Cummins163
  8. 8Ann Patchett153
  9. 9Danielle Steel121
  10. 10Jojo Moyes99

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.