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Jeannette Walls portraitJeannette Walls

Charting Oct 25, 2009May 21, 2023 · 19 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.77%
week of May 14, 2023
Career Power
106
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
48
May 2022 – May 2023
Peak Five Years
58
August 2008 – July 2013
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Apr 16, 2023
Comebacks
2
Jun 2013 · Apr 2023, after 9 quiet years

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 · 106 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
Hang the Moon#2648.2
Half Broke Horses#7830.3
The Silver Star#4527.8

At their peak

2022 in books

Jeannette Walls's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2022 to May 2023. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Bonnie Garmus403
  2. 2John Grisham311
  3. 3Stephen King246
  4. 4Gabrielle Zevin240
  5. 5David Baldacci229
  6. 6James Patterson189
  7. 7Barbara Kingsolver177
  8. 8Elin Hilderbrand133
  9. 9Matt Haig132
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks128

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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