Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Jan Karon

Charting May 4, 1997 → Oct 26, 2025 · 113 weeks with chart power

Peak Power: 5.74%; week of Nov 2, 2014
Career Power: 714; share-weeks
Weeks at #1: 5; weeks as the top author

Peak Year: 128; January 2001 – January 2002
Peak Five Years: 371; January 1999 – January 2004
Top-five weeks: 34; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 113; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Apr 29, 2001
Comebacks: 7; May 1999, April 2001, December 2005, December 2007, November 2010, September 2014, October 2017

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After decline	Sep 14, 1997	May 2, 1999	85	84	3.11%	1.91%
After decline	Sep 26, 1999	Apr 29, 2001	83	83	4.50%	1.58%
After decline	Mar 21, 2004	Dec 4, 2005	88	87	5.64%	2.43%
After decline	Apr 2, 2006	Dec 2, 2007	86	84	5.64%	2.09%
After absence	Mar 2, 2008	Nov 14, 2010	141	140	5.64%	2.02%
After absence	Jan 9, 2011	Sep 28, 2014	194	193	5.64%	2.61%
After decline	Dec 6, 2015	Oct 22, 2017	97	95	5.74%	2.11%

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

14 books · 714 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
Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good	#2September 2014	15	September 2014 – January 2015	95.5	95.5
A Common Life	#1April 2001	10	April 2001 – July 2001	86.0	86.0
A New Song	#2May 1999	11	April 1999 – August 1999	72.3	72.1
Light from Heaven	#2November 2005	8	November 2005 – January 2006	67.9	67.9
Shepherds Abiding	#4November 2003	10	November 2003 – January 2004	66.8	66.3
In This Mountain	#1June 2002	8	June 2002 – August 2002	65.2	65.2
Home to Holly Springs	#3November 2007	8	November 2007 – January 2008	46.5	46.5
Out to Canaan	#5May 1997	8	May 1997 – June 1997	43.0	43.0
The Mitford Snowmen	#8October 2001	12	October 2001 – January 2002	42.3	42.3
Esther's Gift	#6November 2002	9	November 2002 – January 2003	38.7	38.7
In the Company of Others	#2November 2010	5	November 2010 – December 2010	30.7	30.7
Come Rain or Come Shine	#1October 2015	4	October 2015 – November 2015	28.6	28.6
To Be Where You Are	#2October 2017	4	October 2017 – October 2017	25.4	25.4
My Beloved	#9October 2025	1	October 2025	4.9	4.8