Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jennifer Weiner
Charting Oct 3, 2004 → Apr 27, 2025 · 81 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 crowns
20042025First crown Aug 2009
- Peak Power
- 4.32%
- week of Aug 30, 2009
- Career Power
- 491
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 2
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 80
- June 2019 – June 2020
- Peak Five Years
- 201
- September 2005 – September 2010
- Top-five weeks
- 25
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 81
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Aug 2, 2009
- Comebacks
- 3
- Apr 2008 · Jul 2014 · Jul 2019, after 5 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
16 books · 491 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Friends Forever | #1 | 7 | 57.5 | ||
| The Summer Place | #2 | 6 | 50.4 | ||
| Big Summer | #5 | 11 | 48.2 | ||
| Fly Away Home | #2 | 6 | 44.1 | ||
| Mrs. Everything | #3 | 7 | 42.8 | ||
| Goodnight Nobody | #2 | 5 | 36.7 | ||
| Certain Girls | #3 | 5 | 33.2 | ||
| The Guy Not Taken | #6 | 6 | 29.9 | ||
| The Next Best Thing | #2 | 4 | 28.2 | ||
| That Summer | #5 | 6 | 27.4 | ||
| All Fall Down | #5 | 5 | 25.9 | ||
| Then Came You | #3 | 4 | 25.1 | ||
| Who Do You Love | #7 | 3 | 15.0 | ||
| Little Earthquakes | #7 | 3 | 12.1 | ||
| The Breakaway | #5 | 2 | 10.4 | ||
| The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits | #10 | 1 | 4.4 |
At their peak
2019 in books →Jennifer Weiner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2019 to June 2020. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Delia Owens682
- 2John Grisham257
- 3Stephen King231
- 4David Baldacci213
- 5James Patterson206
- 6Jeanine Cummins199
- 7Alex Michaelides175
- 8Ann Patchett156
- 9Danielle Steel114
- 10Jojo Moyes113
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.