Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Hilary Mantel
Charting Nov 1, 2009 → May 10, 2020 · 22 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
20092020First 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Mirror & the Light | #1 | 7 | 42.5 | ||
| Bring Up the Bodies | #3 | 8 | 41.6 | ||
| Wolf Hall | #7 | 6 | 20.9 | ||
| The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
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:
- 1Delia Owens688
- 2David Baldacci235
- 3James Patterson222
- 4Alex Michaelides192
- 5John Grisham171
- 6Stephen King166
- 7Jeanine Cummins163
- 8Ann Patchett153
- 9Danielle Steel121
- 10Jojo Moyes99
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.