Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Islington
Charting Nov 30, 2025 → Sep 20, 2026 · 2 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
20252026First crown Nov 2025
- Peak Power
- 1.58%
- week of Nov 30, 2025
- Career Power
- 19
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 1
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 19
- September 2025 – September 2026
- Peak Five Years
- 19
- October 2021 – September 2026
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Nov 30, 2025
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 books · 19 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 Strength of the Few | #1 | 1 | 14.5 | ||
| Scion | #9 | 1 | 4.9 |
At their peak
2025 in books →James Islington's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2025 to September 2026. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Virginia Evans431
- 2Matt Dinniman373
- 3Caro Claire Burke293
- 4Dan Brown225
- 5John Grisham210
- 6SenLinYu210
- 7Kathryn Stockett205
- 8Ann Patchett163
- 9James Patterson161
- 10Callie Hart119
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2020s.