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Jamie Ford portraitJamie Ford

Charting Apr 5, 2009Aug 21, 2022 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.46%
week of Aug 21, 2022
Career Power
12
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
August 2021 – August 2022
Peak Five Years
8
October 2008 – September 2013
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Aug 21, 2022
Comebacks
0
none detected

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

3 books · 12 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 Many Daughters of Afong Moy#1014.2
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet#1523.9
Songs of Willow Frost#1113.6

At their peak

2021 in books

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

  1. 1Matt Haig322
  2. 2John Grisham302
  3. 3Laura Dave246
  4. 4Amor Towles224
  5. 5James Patterson217
  6. 6David Baldacci167
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks144
  8. 8Lucy Foley142
  9. 9Mitch Albom136
  10. 10Stephen King128

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.