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Jodi Picoult

Charting Apr 25, 2004 → Oct 13, 2024 · 173 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
23 crowns
20042024
Longest reign 4 weeks (Mar–Apr 2007) · First crown Mar 2006

Peak Power: 7.04%; week of May 6, 2007
Career Power: 1,166; share-weeks
Crowns: 23; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 138; April 2016 – April 2017
Peak Five Years: 426; May 2006 – May 2011
Top-five weeks: 55; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 173; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.97%; week of Sep 8, 2024
Comebacks: 5; Nov 2014 · Nov 2016 · Nov 2018 · Oct 2020 · Sep 2024

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

17 books · 1,166 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
Small Great Things	#1October 2016	23	October 2016 – April 2017	138.2	138.0
Nineteen Minutes	#1March 2007	13	March 2007 – June 2007	118.2	118.2
Leaving Time	#1November 2014	12	November 2014 – January 2015	89.2	89.2
Handle with Care	#1March 2009	10	March 2009 – May 2009	86.1	86.1
House Rules	#1March 2010	9	March 2010 – May 2010	81.0	81.0
Wish You Were Here	#2December 2021	13	December 2021 – March 2022	78.6	78.6
Change of Heart	#1March 2008	8	March 2008 – May 2008	73.3	73.3
The Storyteller	#1March 2013	8	March 2013 – May 2013	70.2	70.2
Sing You Home	#2March 2011	9	March 2011 – May 2011	67.5	67.4
Lone Wolf	#1March 2012	7	March 2012 – April 2012	67.2	67.2
Mad Honeywith Jennifer Finney Boylan	#3October 2022	26	October 2022 – April 2023	65.9	131.8
A Spark of Light	#1October 2018	8	October 2018 – December 2018	54.7	54.7
The Book of Two Ways	#1October 2020	8	October 2020 – November 2020	53.9	53.9
The Tenth Circle	#2March 2006	7	March 2006 – May 2006	49.7	49.7
By Any Other Name	#1September 2024	6	September 2024 – October 2024	45.7	44.7
Vanishing Acts	#7March 2005	4	March 2005 – April 2005	20.3	20.3
My Sister's Keeper	#11April 2004	2	April 2004 – May 2004	6.5	6.4

At their peak

2016 in books →

Jodi Picoult's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2016 to April 2017. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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