Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jesmyn Ward
Charting Oct 15, 2017 → Nov 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sing, Unburied, Sing | #5 | 8 | 33.1 | ||
| Let Us Descend | #5 | 2 | 13.9 |
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:
- 1John Grisham376
- 2James Patterson228
- 3Dan Brown220
- 4Danielle Steel194
- 5Paula Hawkins160
- 6Amor Towles147
- 7David Baldacci141
- 8Lee Child138
- 9Michael Connelly127
- 10Neil Gaiman113
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.