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Jesmyn Ward portraitJesmyn Ward

Charting Oct 15, 2017Nov 19, 2023 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.35%
week of Feb 25, 2018
Career Power
47
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
33
March 2017 – February 2018
Peak Five Years
33
February 2013 – February 2018
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Jan 21, 2018
Comebacks
1
Nov 2023, 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

2 books · 47 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
Sing, Unburied, Sing#5833.1
Let Us Descend#5213.9

At their peak

2017 in books

Jesmyn Ward's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2017 to February 2018. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham376
  2. 2James Patterson228
  3. 3Dan Brown220
  4. 4Danielle Steel194
  5. 5Paula Hawkins160
  6. 6Amor Towles147
  7. 7David Baldacci141
  8. 8Lee Child138
  9. 9Michael Connelly127
  10. 10Neil Gaiman113

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.