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Jean Hanff Korelitz portraitJean Hanff Korelitz

Charting Apr 6, 2014Jun 6, 2021 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.30%
week of Jun 6, 2021
Career Power
5
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
3
June 2020 – June 2021
Peak Five Years
3
June 2016 – June 2021
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Jun 6, 2021
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

2 books · 5 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 Plot#1312.8
You Should Have Known#1512.1

At their peak

2020 in books

Jean Hanff Korelitz's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2020 to June 2021. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Brit Bennett401
  2. 2Delia Owens346
  3. 3John Grisham317
  4. 4Matt Haig191
  5. 5V. E. Schwab186
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks186
  7. 7James Patterson178
  8. 8Kristin Hannah178
  9. 9Danielle Steel128
  10. 10Lucy Foley126

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.