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Jennifer Egan portraitJennifer Egan

Charting Oct 22, 2017May 8, 2022 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.62%
week of Nov 19, 2017
Career Power
50
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
36
January 2017 – January 2018
Peak Five Years
50
May 2017 – May 2022
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Oct 22, 2017
Comebacks
1
Apr 2022

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 · 50 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
Manhattan Beach#3736.1
The Candy House#4313.8

At their peak

2017 in books

Jennifer Egan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2017 to January 2018. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham392
  2. 2James Patterson262
  3. 3Danielle Steel221
  4. 4Dan Brown163
  5. 5Paula Hawkins160
  6. 6Amor Towles153
  7. 7David Baldacci146
  8. 8Lee Child133
  9. 9Michael Connelly132
  10. 10Neil Gaiman127

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.