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James McBride portraitJames McBride

Charting Mar 22, 2020May 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store#237257.1
Deacon King Kong#7414.4

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:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros839
  2. 2Bonnie Garmus392
  3. 3James McBride257
  4. 4Barbara Kingsolver220
  5. 5Abraham Verghese207
  6. 6Emily Henry200
  7. 7Kristin Hannah191
  8. 8Ann Patchett170
  9. 9Stephen King143
  10. 10John Grisham141

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.