Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James McBride
Charting Mar 22, 2020 → May 19, 2024 · 41 weeks with chart power
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- Peak Power
- 8.44%
- week of Mar 10, 2024
- Career Power
- 272
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 257
- May 2023 – May 2024
- Peak Five Years
- 272
- May 2019 – May 2024
- Top-five weeks
- 19
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 41
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 13.16%
- week of Dec 31, 2023
- Comebacks
- 1
- Aug 2023
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 · 272 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 Heaven & Earth Grocery Store | #2 | 37 | 257.1 | ||
| Deacon King Kong | #7 | 4 | 14.4 |
At their peak
2023 in books →James McBride's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2023 to May 2024. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Rebecca Yarros839
- 2Bonnie Garmus392
- 3James McBride257
- 4Barbara Kingsolver220
- 5Abraham Verghese207
- 6Emily Henry200
- 7Kristin Hannah191
- 8Ann Patchett170
- 9Stephen King143
- 10John Grisham141
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2020s.