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Jack Carr

Charting May 3, 2020May 31, 2026 · 11 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    20202026

    First crown Jun 2022

Peak Power
2.04%
week of Jun 12, 2022
Career Power
87
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
20
June 2021 – June 2022
Peak Five Years
79
November 2020 – November 2025
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.72%
week of Jun 5, 2022
Comebacks
1
Oct 2025

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

7 books · 87 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
In the Blood#1220.3
Red Sky Mourning#1217.5
Only the Dead#1216.9
Cry Havoc#3213.7
The Devil's Hand#3111.0
The Fourth Optionwith M.P. Woodward#415.0
Savage Son#1312.8

At their peak

2021 in books

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

  1. 1Matt Haig333
  2. 2Laura Dave314
  3. 3John Grisham238
  4. 4Amor Towles224
  5. 5James Patterson217
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks144
  7. 7Stephen King142
  8. 8Mitch Albom136
  9. 9Lucy Foley123
  10. 10Taylor Jenkins Reid123

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.